More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  All decked out for matsuri, The Takakura Arahito Shrine seems to be the main shrine of Oi on the Yamaguchi coast near Hagi. Just before re...

  Almost at the end of my 5th day walking around the Kunisaki Peninsula at the start of the Kyushu Fudo Myoo Pilgrimage, my last shrine of t...

  Just inland from the beach, and not far from the port in Hagi, is a small Sumiyoshi Shrine. It was established in 1655, though for three y...

  An hour or so after setting out from my hotel on my walk from Ine to Akiyoshidai I came across the first shrine of the day. Yet another Ha...

  The first shrine I stopped in at on my walk along the Sanyo-do in Yamaguchi was a Kumano Shrine in Ezaki. In the back of the grounds was a...