More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  3rd of May, 2014, and my final stop of day 9 of my walk along the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage was a fairly standard village shrine in Mito Ons...

  By mid-afternoon, after leaving Omori, I stopped in briefly at Mononobe Shrine, the ichinomiya of Iwami. The primary kami is Umashimaji, s...

  23rd of December, 2011, and I begin day 22 of my walk around the famous Shikoku Ohenro Pilgrimage by crossing the Shimanto River on the Sh...

  Omori, like Yunotsu where I started walking today, is both a World Heritage Site and a Historic Preservation District. One my way through ...