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Hi all, I'm still in Japan but it just occurred to me that I forgot to include an important note in my last post on…
Hi all, I'm still in Japan but it just occurred to me that I forgot to include an important note in my last post on…
While I was staying in Hiroshima I did a day trip out to Himeji to check out the city’s castle. It would have been better…
In the northern part of Nara Park is Todaiji Temple, which was originally built in 752 to be the head of all provincial Buddhist temples…
Not far from both Osaka and Kyoto is the town of Nara, which used to be Japan’s capital before the capital was moved to Kyoto.…
One of the days I was in Osaka a typhoon swept through town delivering very heavy rain at several points. A wet day like that…
Before doing a day trip out to Nara I spent part of a morning at Osaka Castle. When the castle was first built in the…
On my first night in Osaka I walked down to the Dotonbori region of the city. Dotonbori is a very popular part of Osaka that’s…
Before leaving Kyoto I went out to Kyoto’s western region to visit the Arashiyama district. In this part of Kyoto the landscape changes from urban…
Because the attractions in Kyoto are pretty spread out over the city I had to use public transit a lot while I was there, but…
To finish up my time in northern Kyoto I stopped by Kinkakuji Temple, aka the Golden Pavilion. Like Ginkakuji Temple in eastern Kyoto, Kinkakuji Temple…