More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

The shrine is located in a residential area not far north of the main train station in Matsue, and while it is an Inari shrine there are non...

Yoko dropped me off about one kilometer upstream at my favorite overlook. I hung around for about 20 minutes hoping for the sun to break thr...

Woke up to a few centimeters of of snow this morning so took the opportunity to go for a short one hour walk...... Tomorrow I will post more...

Zuijin is the common name given to pairs of statues found guarding some shinto shrines, usually in their own gateways called zuijinmon. Zuij...

The St. Francis Xavier Memorial Church sits on a hill overlooking the town and harbor of Hirado on Hirado Island in Nagasaki Prefecture. Con...

My vacation was drawing to a close, so on my way back up to London to catch my flight home to Japan I stopped in to visit family in south De...

There are a lot of these spiders around the end of summer and into autumn. I cant be sure but I think its is a female Nephila clavata, a kin...

When we came out of the Nagashibina Doll Museum in Mochigase I spied a little splash of autumn colors across the valley and suspected it mi...

This is the draincover for the town of Oda, a fairly nondescript town close to the border between Iwami and Izumo. The mountains in the back...

Well, this place is about as familiar as any in Japan, recognizable to anyone who has been to Kyoto, it is of course the entrance to Yasaka ...