Travel – Page 3 – Japanese History and Culture

Welcome to hell! Beppu Jikoku, Oita.

Last summer I went to Beppu for a few days. Unfortunately as the trip drew closer Kyushu was hit by

During the ‘isolation period’ of Japan also known as the Edo Period a few nations were still allowed to trade

While I was living in Kumamoto one of things I really wanted to do is visit the cave Musashi Miyamoto

Happy Thursday! I’m going to start posting some new blogs which only focus on my photography. Articles are great but

I’m delighted to let you know that I am now writing articles for http://www.taiken.co. This is a link for my

A couple of weeks ago I visited Raizan Sennyoji in Itoshima. Itoshima is a nice little country suburb a little

Miyamoto Musashi Died On June 13, 1645. Considered one of the greatest samurai of all time, Miyamoto Musashi’s reputation has

Miyajidake sits in the northern region of Fukutsu city about 1 hour from central Fukuoka. It is famous for the

I haven’t done a post for a while about one of my favourite Ukiyo-e print series. So lets have a

I visited Shiga back in 2016 in January. I was expecting it to be cold but I was pleasantly surprised

I had a day off today and it wasn’t raining so I decided to visit Lafcadio Hearn’s residence just down

This article was originally going to be included in the ‘History of Aki (Hiroshima) Prefecture’ but as this article has

The rain misted down and I had two choices: the road up the hill, or the one alongside the river.

(Tenshu-kaku from the south) (Tenshu-kaku from the north. You can see the irregular shape of the base floor from this

Shukkeien gardens date back to 1620, a year after feudal lord Asano Nagaakira was made lord of Hiroshima. Asano’s principal