More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  The mist has long since all burned off as I drop down into the Shimaji River valley and come into the biggest settlement since leaving Kan...

  After leaving Yuasa I continued north on the Kumano Kodo Kiiji Trail, first up river and then into the mountains. First stop was Sakagawa ...

  Kumanohara Shrine is a small, but ancient shrine in what is now the Teramachi district of Karatsu in Saga. According to the shrine legend ...

  I came down Mount Kurokami along a walking trail and as it got closer to the base passed though an old, Hizen-style torii, indicating this...

  Early March, 2014, and on day 64 of my walk around Kyushu I walked from Nagasaki, up the coast of Omura Bay, to Nagaura, stopping in, as u...