More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  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...

  After leaving Kawamoto and passing the Higashi Ohashi Bridge , I headed upstream to the little settlement of Kirobara, and I was excited t...

  Sakakiyama Shrine is a large shrine in Kumano, Hiroshima, the brush capital of Japan. It is said to have been founded in 933 when the spir...