More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  My first stop after coming down the mountain and reachting the wide open  plain around Itoshima was the village shrine in Takae. Located a...

  The most interesting piece of architecture in Kobe, to my mind at least, is the Kobe Maritime Museum located on the waterfront in Meriken ...

  March 27th, 2014, and I leave Sennyoji Temple after a couple of hours exploring the unexpected delights of this amazing mountain temple....

  Located in Hidaka, a little north of Gobo, for 800 years this was known as Takaie Oji, but was renamed in early Meiji. It was one of the 1...

  The Kannon-do and Kaisan-do are the two structures above the main part of Sennyoji Temple. The Kannon Hall was built around 1880 and as we...