More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  One interesting feature of Ichibata Yakushi Temple is the 84,000 Buddhas project.  Buddhism says that we have 84,000 mental impurities tha...

  The Kishigawa Line is the only line of the Wakayama Electric Railway. It runs 14.3 kilometers from Wakayama Station to Kishi Station. Japa...

  I head inland from the coast of the Shimane Peninsula and reach Ichibata Yakushi Temple, number 26 on the pilgrimage. From the car park an...

  A strait is a narrow body of sea between two landmasses. Right now in the news the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman is much in the n...