More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  After leaving Renge-ji, temple 44 on the pilgrimage, my way was now pleasantly downhill as the sun got lower in the sky on day 4 of my wal...

  At around 250 meters above sea level on Mount Yufune, temple 44, Renge-ji, looks down on the Nakayama Rice Terraces..... Set in a forest o...

  Deep in the interior of Shodoshima Island is an area of terraced rice paddies. There are said to be about 800 terraces. They were construc...

  Temples 43 and 45 on the Shodoshima Pilgrimage occupy the same site. Jizoji, number 45, was a small temple not far away that because of a ...

  I arrived at Nishinotaki Temple via the mountain footpath that ran from temple 41, Bukkokusan , so I didn't see the quite dramatic en...