More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Tuesday February 18th 2014 It's overcast and dull as I leave my hotel near the main railway station and head south on my one-day explor...

  In October 2009 the Russian sail training ship Nadehzda was making a courtesy visit to Hamada Port and was open to the public Walking back...

  Shaped like a turtle with a great aluminum head protruding out and topped with a giant statue of Kannon, Fukusaiji Temple in Nagasaki is s...

  Kishu Toshogu is a very colorful shrine in Wakayama City. Kishu was the feudal domain of the Edo Period that was roughly what is now north...

  Shofukuji is the 4th of the Chinese temples built in Nagasaki during the Edo Period. Like  nearby Fukusaiji Temple, it is not located in T...