More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Sagi Toriimoto is an Historic Preservation District in Arashiyama, near Kyoto In an earlier post, I covered the upper section, a group of ...

  Saga Toriimoto is a small district at the very edge of Kyoto, up a narrow road leading to the mountain Atago Shrine. It is one of the hist...

  Otagi Nembutsuji Temple is now located in a narrow valley just outside Arashiyama, usually a bit too far for most tourists to walk to. How...

  Though I usually try to post about less familiar sights in Japan, sometimes I go to the very popular places, especia;y when I have oversea...