More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Osaka City Air Terminal does have buses that run to both Kansai Airport and Itami Airport, but in reality it is a multi-use business and c...

Another Time XX is a cast-iron sculpture by British artist Antony Gormley situated on a remote mountaintop in the Kunisaki Peninsula in nort...

  Yamata no Orochi is a mythical serpent with 8 heads that appears in the Izumo cycle of ancient Japanese myths set in the time before the d...

Tadao Koga Sculpture Forest Within the grounds of what was Saga Castle , adjacent to the reconstructed palace, are the Saga Prefectural Mus...

石垣島 Just across the road from Yonehara Beach in central Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, is the Yoneko Yaki craft centre where you can see and buy,...

  Buddhist temples in Japan, like temples, shrines, and churches all over the world, are often repositories of a lot of art. Some temples ha...

As I was climbing up towards the first mountain temple on the Shodoshima Pilgrimage I spied ahead of me what I guessed was a kind of shr...

Isshiki Kazari is a unique form of folk art that origjnated in Hirata up in Izumo. The essence of the art is that sculptures are made ou...