More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Heading out of Tamana in Kumamoto on day 49 of my walk, I spied a tall pagoda, and heading over to investigate discovered this huge temple...

  After leaving my night time perch at the Tamana Observatory I crossed the Kikuchi River and started to walk through Tamana. The first sto...

  It was late on my first day walking the Kinki Fudo Myo Pilgrimage when I visited Kyozenji Temple. Like the three previous temples of the d...

  Before moving to Japan I had lived many years in a desert environment, so one of the most different and dramatic landscapes I encountered ...

  This is one of the iconic views of the Shodoshima Pilgrimage. Temple number 2, Goishizan is only a few hundred meters from Temple 1, Dounz...

  According to records, Kinzani Temple was founded bu the monk Hoon Daishi, under orders of Empress Koken, in the year 749, which makes it t...

Taketomi Taketomi Island, a small island a few kilometers from the larger Ishigaki island in what is now Okinawa Prefecture, is a very popul...

  Taman Observatory is a curious structure located on a small hilltop overlooking a sports park and the town of Tamana beyond. It's not ...

  December 20th, the 48th day of my first walk around Kyushu and I left Yamaga to head down to Tamana. First stop was the burial mounds muse...