More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  The area of Hagi around the port and the mouth of the Matsumoto River is called Hamasaki. Though there was still more than a month until G...

  A few miles before reaching the Sea of Japan, the Abu River in Yamaguchi splits into two channels, the eastern being named the Matsumoto R...

  On the third day of my walk up the Gonokawa River towards its source, I have passed through the boundaries of Gotsu City and Kawamoto Town...

  After visiting the huge stump of what used to be a sacred tree I carried on upstream on the south/east bank of the Gonokawa River. So far...