More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Heading south out of Saijo I stopped in at the Mitsujo Tombs, a cluster of ancient burial mounds inlcuding a rather large "keyhole...

  These are just some architecture shots of the museum I posted on last. This time I use the name that is listed in the official Kumamoto Ar...

Tombs Museum The Kumamoto Decorated Tombs Museum is located a few miles from Yamaga, north of Kumamoto City. It is sometimes referred to as ...

Kanbara Shrine is a little further down the river from Unochi Shrine , but was until recently about a hundred meters from its current lo...

The Yamanobenomichi (the road along the base of the mountains) has the distinction of being the oldest road mentioned in Japanese historical...