Hiraizumi 2019: Walking across town
While there are buses in Hiraizumi, I decided to walk from Motsuji Temple to my next destination in town. Part of this was because my…
While there are buses in Hiraizumi, I decided to walk from Motsuji Temple to my next destination in town. Part of this was because my…
From the Aoba Castle Ruins in Sendai I took a bus to Sendai Station to begin my sightseeing outside of the city. My first day…
After leaving the Zuihoden Mausoleum I caught a bus that took me over to the ruins of Aoba Castle. Sendai’s great castle was first built…
I arrived in Sendai in the late afternoon and would be spending three nights there, but I wouldn’t see too much of Sendai itself. Most…
Normally on this website I don’t feature the places I stay at while traveling overseas, but today I’m making an exception since there’s a story…
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Having finished my sightseeing in Nikko, I returned to the central part of town and got a late lunch at a restaurant called Ramen Bonten.…
There are a number of things I expected to find in Nikko, but an Anglican Church wasn’t one of them. On the day that I…
Before leaving Nikko’s World Heritage Sites I stopped by Rinnoji Temple for a short visit. Rinnoji is considered Nikko’s most important temple and it was…
Right in the middle of Nikko’s World Heritage Sites is a short road that’s one of my favorite places in Nikko. It’s a straight path…
A minute away from Futarasan Shrine is the mausoleum of Iemitsu Tokugawa, the grandson of Ieyasu Tokugawa. The mausoleum is also known as the Taiyuin,…
Continue reading → Nikko 2019: Iemitsu Mausoleum (aka Taiyuin) (大猷院)