Okinawa 2019: Nakagusuku Castle (中城)
It was a Sunday when I picked up my rental car in Naha and I first attended a church service before doing some sightseeing on…
It was a Sunday when I picked up my rental car in Naha and I first attended a church service before doing some sightseeing on…
To start off my sightseeing in Naha I visited Shuri Castle, which might be the city’s biggest historical attraction. I took the monorail to the…
The next stop in my trek across Korea was the town of Jeonju. I arrived at night and the next morning I started my sightseeing…
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…
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 full day in Kyoto I did some sightseeing in the central part of the city and one of the first places I…
When I finished at the Kenrokuen Garden I walked across the street to Kanazawa Castle. The castle unfortunately is only partially complete because it has…
After walking a short distance down beside the Tiber River we went back up to street level next to the Italian Supreme Court building and…
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At Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka I purchased a reservation for my shinkansen (bullet train) to Hiroshima. The shinkansen was set to depart Osaka at 1:09pm,…
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It only takes about 30 minutes to get to Osaka from Kyoto by train. Because of their relatively close proximity it’s certainly possible to visit…