More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Seemingly floating in Esaki Bay, Saidoji Temple has a distinctive hexagonal hall. The origin dates back to the early part of the 15th Cent...

  After leaving Utago I pass by the relatively famous Sogogawa Bridge. Built in 1932 it is 189 meters long with a slight curve, and carries ...

 This small shrine goes overboard with marine-safety gods, has the most strangely looking Fudo Myoo, and proves that angry ghosts can be hor...

  Utago is a fairly decent-sized little fishing village. At the edge of town is a new fishing harbour, but the old, original harbour is in t...

  I began day 31 of my walk along the Chugoku Pilgrimage at Kiyo, a fishing harbour on the north coast of Yamaguchi Its late March, and so S...