Tag: history

The Shioya Fall Festival

After a pause for more than two years, because of the corona virus pandemic, Japanese festivals are finally coming back!

Tucked away on a hillside above the small town of Arashiyama on the outskirts of Kyoto is a small temple

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not. Octavia

Himeji castle is one of the few remaining medieval castles in Japan. It was first built in the 1500’s on

Half an hour by bus from Himeji station is Mount Shosha. Although there is a cable car that brings one

Ichijodani is a small village outside of Fukui in the foothills of the mountains. Above this village there once was