More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  From the fishing village of Shiotsu, the road rises steeply and then heads inland a little. I stop in at a small wayside shrine called Tak...

  The Ninomiya, second-ranked shrine, of the old Suo Province was the Izumo Shrine in the Tokuji District on the banks of the Saba River nor...

  Nishoyamada Shrine, located next to Kanyoji Temple, the next temple on the Chugoku Pilgrimage for me, has a delightful, long approach with...

  Houjuji, temple 62 of the Ohenro, is only one and a half kilometers from the previous temple, number 61 Ko-onji. It is in a cluster of pil...