9 Culture A Rinno-ji Temple Cemetery in Nikko Larry Knipfing Just next to the Narabi Jizo Statues area, there are steps that lead up to a cemetery exclusively for the monks that have die...
10 Culture Utsunomiya’s Matsugamine Church Tomoko Kamishima Constructed in 1932, the Catholic Matsugamine Church is the oldest and largest surviving building made of Ohya-ishi (Ohya Sto...
Culture Nikko's Italian Villa Memorial Park Tomoko Kamishima The former Italian Embassy Villa in Nikko is now open to the public as a park. After Tochigi prefecture bought it quite recen...
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...