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Finally playing tourist at 110%
... meeting my Japanese host Kazuto, I went walking around, still going at it 110%. My stops were to include Toji temple and Nishi Honganji Temple. I took the rail (for a buck fifty or so) to save time, and got to Toji pretty quickly. Toji is ...
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Southern Kyoto Sightseeing
... we could barely advance from one food stall to the next at times. The Japanese love their seafood! We then walked over to Nishi Honganji Temple and Koshuji Temple. They both shared the same compound. In Kyoto, a number of the larger temples all had huge ...
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Kyoto part 2
... I then wandered over to Kyoto Tower to take a look at the city from 100 metres in the air and finished off by visiting Nishi-Honganji temple. I still actually ended up doing a good five miles of walking and my feet were completely blistered up. I think ...
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Cultural Home of Japan
... Temples on O'ahu, Hawaii. In December 1994, UNESCO listed the building as a World Heritage Site.' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . From wiki: "Nishi Honganji was established in 1602 by the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu when he split the main Honganji in Kyoto ...
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Traditionelles Japan
... gingen wir in ein Café in der Nähe des Bahnhofs wo wir uns kurz aufwärmten. Nachdem wir uns danach noch den Nishi Honganji Tempel anschauten hatten wir irgendwie alle keine Lust mehr weswegen wir zurück ins Hostel gingen. Am Abend gingen wir nochmal ...
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A day in Kyoto
... most important aspect of the place, I always needed more.The first stop was the first Buddhist temple we visited. The Nishi-Honganji Temple, a UNESCO world heritage site, dedicated to ‘Amida Buddha’.This temple was built by the Tokugawa ...
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Comment visiter Kyoto le plus simplement possible?
... histoire de ramener la chance avec nous après l'épisode " valises/destockeur", et nous voila reparties vers l'hôtel, et le temple Nishi HonganJi, situé tout près. On n'a pas pu le voir dans de bonnes conditions, d'ailleurs , car il était en travaux ...
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Kyoto, Old Japan
... day of walking, we took the train from Shijo back to shichijo station. 21/06/06 After a quick breakfast, we walk to Nishi Honganji (free) and Higashi Honganji (free)- two large temples in the center of Kyoto; designated as UNESCO world heritage ...
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Kyoto
... still plesant to walk around and kill time. From here we headed a few blocks down the road to a very similar temple called Nishi Honganji Temple which apparently was the original and the other was built to rival it...shame they didn't alter the design ...
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Rain, Zen Gardens and Temples
... , but not really appreciating them all. There was just too much to take in. On my way back to Kyoto Station, I saw Koshoji and Nishi-honganji Temples. They did not take up as much space as the other temples, but it had one of the more ...
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