More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Considered one of the Three Great Views of Japan, Itsuhushima Shrine on Miyajima in Hiroshima is an iconic image of Japan. A World Heritag...

  Mishima Shrine is located in Takaokacho, Tosa, at the base of the hill on which Ohenro temple 35, Kiyotakiji is found. It shares space w...

  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...

Towards the end of my first days walk across and around  Kunisaki  the valley narrowed and the road started to climb towards the middl...

I'm going against the grain of the title of my blog this time as this is MOST familiar japan. It is of course the floating torii in fron...