Japan's Cities, Towns & Villages
On our trip to Niigata we drove through a mountainous area where many Japanese like to go and ski. Our car rode up and down the mountains and through numberous tunnels. One tunnel stretched about 10 miles through the mountain! Small towns were tucked in the valleys between the mountains. We talked about the fact [...]
Here is a note from Dana and Amy Shadburne who will be arriving in Japan in the fall to work in Okayama. It is nice to be writing our first blog on the team website. It has been a long process getting to this point, but we can officially say we are now part of [...]
One of the things that I love the most about being in Japan is meeting Japanese. Part of the ministry of JGPNetwork is to distribute the Manga Bible, New Testaments, and the Hope DVD. During our day in the countryside we distributed the materials around a Buddhist temple. Shirley, a volunteer from Hawaii and I saw [...]
I love small out of the way places that only locals know about. On our trip out to the country we visited a small bread shop run by a mother and her three daughters. The shop consisted of a section for homemade breads and about 4-5 mis-shaped tables. On the top of one table was [...]
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name? And then I will declare to them [...]
Many people say that the Japanese are not a religious people, but traveling out to the village assured me once again that this statment is not true. Japanese Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples dot the countryside. They are found on hilltops, in neighborhoods, or tucked away in small yards. On Shikoku, one of the [...]
We are blessed to have Rachel Routt, a former journeyman, with us for a few weeks. Here she shares about her trip to a small city in Chiba on her first day back in Japan. Driving through the towns and villages of Japan is like night and day compared to the busy subways of Tokyo. [...]
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