More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  At the edge of Kawamoto on my way out of town is a small wayside shrine. It is a Tatara Shrine, tatara being the traditional type of forge...

  Kawamoto is the biggest town on the Gonokawa River since leaving Gotsu ate the mouth of the river about 35 kilometers downstream. The rive...

  Early morning, October 15th, 2021, and I begin the 3rd leg of my walk along the south bank of the Gonokawa River to its source. I head alo...

  While on my walk up the right bank of the Gonokawa River to its source I took a side-trip when I reached Shikaga to once again visit Kanno...

  A little over a kilometer further upstream from the main part of Kawagoe village and bridge is another sizable settlement. Called Watari o...

  After leaving the riverside fields of Tazu, the road heads about half a kilometer sandwiched between the forest and the river until the la...

  I begin the second leg of my walk up the Gonokawa River to its source from my home. I live on the other bank to the one I am walking up. M...