Culture Kanuma Buttsuke Autumn Festival Dale A. Brown A festival of food, music, dance and elaborate floats celebrated each year in October.
9 Culture Oya Temple, Near Utsunomiya Megan Page Standing in the shadows of Buddha at Oya Temple, just outside Utsunomiya city, Tochigi prefecture.
Culture Nasu Sessho-seki Rock Tomoko Kamishima Sessho-seki Rock is a horrible legendary rock. There is a bleak and desolate track of land, called “the dry riverbed of the S...
9 Culture Kyubi Inari Shrine at Nasu Yumoto Larry Knipfing Kyubi Inari (Kitsune Jinja) is a shrine within a shrine at Nasu Onsen Jinja, in the Nasu Onsen area of Tochigi Prefecture. Al...
12 Culture Nasu Yumoto's 1000 Jizo Statues Larry Knipfing Like other jizo statues: sadness and beauty combined
Culture Tochigi Daio-ji Temple in Summer Tomoko Kamishima Daio-ji Temple situated in the northeast region of Tochigi in Kurobane, was established in 1404. At the Somon Gate, we can se...
12 Culture Ashikaga Flower Park in May - Part 1 Tomoko Kamishima Walking through an 80-meter tunnel of white wisteria, or just standing under the 1000 square meters of a purple wisteria trel...
Culture The Travels of Isabella Bird: II Amber Mezbourian Isabella Bird was a Victorian woman who led an unconventional life. Arriving in Japan in 1878, she planned an ambitious journ...
10 Culture Outside Nikko's Tosho-gu Shrine Larry Knipfing I'd like to share the beauty of Nikko with you--in the rain. This story focuses on the nooks and crannies of the area just OU...