More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  A little further along the road to Akiyoshidai after visiting the Hirohata Hachiman Shrine, yet another large hachiman shrine appeared. Iw...

  An hour or so after setting out from my hotel on my walk from Ine to Akiyoshidai I came across the first shrine of the day. Yet another Ha...

  After leaving Kawamoto and passing the Higashi Ohashi Bridge , I headed upstream to the little settlement of Kirobara, and I was excited t...

  Adorning the roof of Haguro Shrine in Tamashima, Okayamama, is a ceramic Karasu Tengu, and it has become the symbol of the shrine and also...