More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  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...

Bukkokusan Temple Bukkokusan, temple number 41 on the Shodoshima Pilgrimage, is actually the okunoin of temple 40, Hoanji, and if you are ...