More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Karube Shrine is located a few minutes from Kiyone JR Station on the Hakube line. The shrine is a few kilometers south of the Kibi Bike Path...

Slippers wait for visitors in front of the main hall of Kezo-Ji. When we visited on a sunny Sunday afternoon we were the only visitors there...

The seventh kagura matsuri for us this month was at Kakushi in Gotsu. Being in a town there were lots of people there and lots of stalls. Th...

Kibitsuhiko Shrine is at one end of the Kibi Bike path near to Bizen Ichinomiya Station where bikes can be rented or dropped off if coming f...

There are a lot of blogs that focus on the variety of products in Japan that seem strange, unusual, or just plain weird, and I do not intend...

After watching a few dances up at the matsuri in Kanzui, it was time to head back to our own matsuri in Tanijyugo. The Kakko dance had just ...

The New Fukuoka Tower stands next to the beach in the Momochi District of Fukuoka City. At 234 meters in height it is the tallest seaside to...

Saturday was the matsuri in our own village, but first we headed up into the mountains to check out a matsuri we hadn't been to before a...

The distinctive roof of Kibitsu Shrine is visible from quite a distance as one approaches on the Kibi Bike Path. From a sub-shrine there is ...

On Wednesday night we headed to the Hachimangu shrine in Uyagawa, a village on the coast between Gotsu and Hamada. I'd never been to thy...