More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Unkai is a Japanese word describing a late Autumn, early Winter weather phenomenon whereby valleys fill with clouds. From high points it l...

Monday, March 24th, 2014, and I take the first train out of Sasebo heading north. The sun comes up as I am approaching Hizen Nagano from whe...

  Friday, March 7th, 2014, day 65 of my walk around Kyushu and a wonderful sunrise. I spent the night at a minshuku right on the water's...

  Sunday January 5th 2014. Day 56 of my walk around  Kyushu on the Kyushu  Pilgrimage.  This will be the last day where I base myself in Ku...

It was cloudy when I woke up on the third day of my walk along the Aki Nada island chain in the Inland Sea in Hiroshima, but it was s...

One of the delights of walking pilgrimages in japan is that you need to get up before the sun and head out. This means you get to see th...

Shirahige Shirahige Shrine is located on the western shore of Lake Biwa in what is now Shiga. It is home to one of the famous "floa...