Japan – Castles and Koyto!
Thank god for high speed trains! Even though Japan is smaller than the US, we insist on spending time traveling across country. It was great fun! Tons of things to see and do!
Koyto: Train Station, walking tour, and around town!
- Train station in Kyoto. Random penguin statue at the train station! Different train stations in Kyoto.
- Tokufuji Temple – Zen Buddhist Temple. We met some great people on our walking tour. Most of the people were from California.
- Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple. There is a hair rope in the temple because at the time hair was stronger than rope.
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- Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine:
- Okonomiyaki – Japanese savory crepes.
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- Geisha District in Gion. Geiko (Geisha) and Maiko (apprentices). There are a lot of tourist dressed up as geiko’s. The first picture is most likely tourist. It is funny, we spend a lot of time trying to identify geiko’s and maiko’s. The restaurant below is a famous steak house that provides a lineage of the cow that you are eating and a nose print.
- Arashiyama and Sagano: Monkey’s, bamboo forest, temples. Meg is right, the monkeys in Japan are more behaved than the monkey’s in Indonesia – they don’t bite you in the butt and they don’t steal your stuff. Vasily, Anna, and Raymond hanging out. Raymond practicing to be Godzilla.
- Philosophers path/walk. Poor Vasily, nobody wanted to wake up early to walk with him on philosopher’s path. Ok, I am gullible even when I know that cherry season isn’t until next spring. Needless to say there are no cherry blossoms on the path at this time of year. Lucky for Anna and Raymond, they slept in!! It is beautiful! The water is so clear, you can see fish swimming.
- Japanese Garden.
- Random pictures of Kyoto.
