More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Early on my third day walking the Shodoshima Pilgrimage I visited a small group of temples in close proximity to each other. Temples 24 to...

  Not far from the Unzen Disaster Museum is yet another memorial of the volcanic disaster from the early 1990's. A series of houses buri...

  It is said that the torii at Nakayama Shrine is unique. At the time of my visit i didn't notice, but now I can see it. An Ox statue us...

  Mount Unzen in the middle of the Shimabara Peninsula in Nagasaki is a collection of volcanic peaks that erupted in 1792 in what was the wo...

  Yubu is a tine island 400 meters off the coast or Iriomote Island that has no ferries or bridge. Transport to and from the island is by ca...