More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

The Ehime Prefectural Science Museum is situated on the hillside overlooking Niihama and the Inland sea. It opened in 1994 and ...

Tatsueji is known as a "sekisho", a barrier gate or spiritual checkpoint. There are stories of pilgrims who could not enter ...

After leaving Onamuchi's shrine the narrow road continues to wind steeply up the mountainside. I love walking these roads as they ...

Continuing with some more photos of flowers I noticed while walking around Shikoku on the 88 temple pilgrimage. This one was in the mo...

Following the success of the Tokugawa at the Battle of Sekigahara the Mori Clan were stripped of most of their landholdings and moved ...

Hachimangu shrines are the most common type of shrine found throughout Japan, and the Hachimangu in Usa, Oita Prefecture, is the origi...

Sannose is a small village and port on the east side of Shimokamagari Island. In the 15th and 16th century a castle stood on the hill ...

The first temple on Onomichi's Temple Walk is the Jodo (Pure Land) sect temple Jiko-ji. Originally founded in the ninth century it...

Located right next to Kitahachimangu in Oda City is a small Inari shrine. Its a small shrine with only about a dozen vermillio...

The most poisonous snake in Japan is the Mamushi, also the most common. Gloydius Bomhoffii is a pit-viper and is found all over. ...