More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Up before the sun on the longest day of the year, I left my beach  campsite and started up towards Taisha. Looking back up the beach towar...

  Floating Torii are the torii gates placed in water marking the approach to a shrine from the water. They are found in lakes and the sea an...

  Joruriji is located on the southern edge of Matsuyama City, and is the first of 8 temples around Matsuyama that are on the Shikoku pilgrim...

There are thousands of small uninhabited islands and islets  in Japan, many of them sacred and with small shrines on them. One hears o...

The small shrine on Bentenjima (Benten Island) enshrines the female kami/goddess Benten, sometimes known as Benzaiten. Associated with water...