More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Day 9 of my walk along the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage and during the morning I stop in at two noteworthy shrines. Iwami is a remote region, a...

Chichi Sugi, which translates as Boob Cedar is an 800 year old tree on the slopes of Mount Daimanji on Dogo, the biggest of the Oki Islands...

  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 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...

  Itoga, on the south bank of the Arita River in Wakayama was a stopping point on the most travelled of all the Kumano Kodo routes, the Kiij...