... that wasn`t the case, and we were going to the altogether less-tedious surroundings of Kakegawa to see a castle, something that I`d not seen in Japan so far.
Surrounding the castle were a variety of museums, and barely any tourists at all, so Yumi ...
... kindly drove us around the one full day we had, first to the Ryugashido Caves (limestone caves), then to the Ryotanji Temple, then to the HamamatsuCastle (home to Tokugawa Ieyasu), only find it closed at 4:30 (we got there at 4:37 - doh!) ...
... shopping of course, but even that's a pale shadow of Nagoya's.
With little to detain me around the station, I made a beeline for HamamatsuCastle Park. At a good 25-30 minute walk away, most visitors opt for a bus from the station, but I thought I'd ...
... show off some tourist attractions from my home in this post. 1. Inuyama Castle: It was considered as the oldest castle of Japan (now in controversy), which has one of the four national treasure castle keeps. When I reached the castle at 5:30 P.M. ...
... (Aki's home town). Before meeting with some of the relatives (lots of brothers and cousins) I managed to check out the Hamamatsucastle. It was built by Takugawa Ieyasu about 450 years ago, where he spent 17 years of his life. He was a ...