Tag: temples

Sado Island has many old temples and shrines. This must be partly because many noble people came to this island. But these people came here not because they wanted to live in this northern island with cold and severe weather during winter.  On the contrary, they were sent here as ...

Yamanashi is very hot during summer because it is a basin surrounded by mountains. So it would be hard to walk around at this time of the year. But still, there are good things travelling in this season. You can see many flowers. ...

There are many temples and shrines in Yamanashi perhaps partly because it was governed by a powerful feudal lord Shingen Takeda.  The architecture of those old monuments is worth visiting but apart from the architecture, there are beautiful Japanese gardens. ...