Isolated for 350 years, the mountainous Iya Valley is often called the Tibet of Japan. They share an ancient allure. With time for only one
At this time in autumn twenty-five moons ago, we were bashing around on the “living husband-and-wife bridges” in Japan’s most secluded wilderness in a “wild
When I read Alex Kerr’s book Lost Japan back in 1996, I fell in love with the idea of visiting Chiiori. Never, never ever in
Wrong Turns Kansai Airport to Mountain-Top Koyasan weary of tunnels,in the Fukuchiin Templewe sleep near the monks Koyasan’s Okunoin, Japan’s Largest Cemetery graveyard night tourFukuchiin
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