Bagi kebanyakan dari kita, merasa bahwa dunia bawah — Neraka, Hades, Xibalba, apa pun sebutannya — terletak di alam spiritual, dan hanya dapat diakses oleh mereka yang telah meni… Read More

Osorezan is well known as one of the three major holy sites or hallowed grounds in Japan and was established by Jikakutaishi of Tendai Buddhism in 862. It's located in the Shimokita Peninsul… Read More

A Voyage to Aomori, Part 2 of 5Eight mountains surround a lake at the centre of the Shimokita axe-blade. The wind ripples its surface, creating gentle waves which caress its sandy shore. It… Read More

A Voyage to Aomori, Part 4 of 5 The Oirase River.Lake Towada.Many of Japan's most popular sites of nautral beauty are also immensely destructive volcanoes. Indeed, that volcanism tends to be… Read More

A voyage to Aomori, Part 3 of 5From the sanctuary of Osorezan I crossed back to this world of artifice and illusions. A two-hour descent from the Shimokita Peninsula by train brought me to A… Read More