More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  From the fishing village of Shiotsu, the road rises steeply and then heads inland a little. I stop in at a small wayside shrine called Tak...

  Coming into Shiotsu Funamori Shrine is enclosed within high concrete walls to protect it from storms. Until Meiji it was called Hachioji D...

  Hinomisaki is a grand shrine at the western tip of the Shimane Peninsula, in a small cove under the Hinomisaki Lighthouse, the tallest in ...

  May 5th, 2015, day 40 of my walk along the Chugoku Kannon Pilgrimage. A short walk from my nights campsite I arrive at Susa Shrine. This i...