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Japan Map of Fall Foliage Kansai Osaka 34 Sefuku-ji Temple (施福寺) in Izumi [googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m0!3m2!1sen!2sjp!4v1477905980004!6m8!1m7!1sF%3A-KZCLgVmqdJo%2FWANXP6uoKYI%2FAAAAAAAACZ0%2FIw6dBL1GdGEblqQcFIDWNgbhi5CvZ_9CwCLIB!2m2!1d34.395161!2d135.5053769!3f9.404565357758372!4f-7.432155256378763!5f0.7820865974627469&w=600&h=450] First colors: End of October Color Peak: Middle of November until the end of November Hours: March – November 8am – 5pm ;...

Japan Map of Fall Foliage Kansai Osaka 36 Kyuan-ji Temple (久安寺) in Ikeda A photo posted by Rina (@rinana.o) on Dec 6, 2015 at 2:59am PST //platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js First colors: Middle of November Color Peak: Middle of November until...

Japan Map of Fall Foliage Kansai Kyoto 10 Kosho-ji Temple (興聖寺) in Uji A photo posted by 拓?風 (@sohkai_works) on Dec 10, 2015 at 5:24pm PST //platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js First colors: End of November Color Peak: End of November until...

Japan Map of Fall Foliage Niigata Niigata 1 ~ 6  1 Dragondola (ドラゴンドラ) in Yuzawa First colors: Beginning of October Color Peak: End of October Details: Long gondola that gives you a panoramic view of the mountains in...

Japan Map of Fall Foliage Niigata 3 Yuzawa Kogen Panorama Park (湯沢高原パノラマパーク) in Yuzawa A photo posted by Kazuhisa Inui (@kazuhisa_inui) on Oct 23, 2016 at 3:30am PDT //platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js First colors: Middle of October Color Peak: End of...

Japan Map of Fall Foliage Niigata 5 Kiyotsu Gorge (清津峡) in Tokamachi First colors: mid-October Color Peak: end of October – beginning of November Details: One of Japan’s three biggest gorges Special sight: The panoramic area with an...

Not so many years ago the locals of Miyanoshita in Fukui had to decide what to do with a large piece of barren ground. One of the options was to turn it into a...

In Fukui there are two well known temples, Daianzenji and Eiheiji, that differ very strongly from each other. Eiheiji Temple belongs to the "Soto Zen" school of teaching and its name literally means temple...

What do priest trainees eat? With more than 200 people living under one roof there must be a very complex system for cooking, right? On the contrary, the monks prefer to keep the sober lifestyle...

One sunny autumn day we decided to hike Mount Oyama, located in Kanagawa Prefecture about 1,5 hours from Shinjuku Station. It takes a little while to reach the mountain foot, but the view across...