More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  A little way after visiting Kitakata Hachimangu, I turned off the old Sanyo-do and took a more modern, rural bypass type road that has few...

  Tokujoji, a Jodo sect temple on the Kiiji Route of the Kumano Kodo is commonly known as Chujohime Temple. Sometimes referred to as the Jap...

  I don't think I have ever seen an arrangement of three torii like this before. Kitakata Hachimangu is located in Ajisu, Yamaguchi,  on...

  Shukkeien is the daimyo garden connected to Hiroshima Castle. Not so long ago I posted a sequence of photos taken in the autumn , and so t...