More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  10,000 years ago, the Shimane Peninsula was a long narrow island running parallel to the coast of Izumo. Looking at a map, it is not hard ...

  After crossing over the small Kamo River in  Kitsumoto, the Kiiji Route of the Kumano Kodo starts to head uphill towards the next pass, bu...

  Kanden-an was the country retreat for the Arisawa family, the chief  retainers of the Matsudaira who controlled Matsue Domain from the nea...