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Travel Blogs from Kyoto, Japan
Temple City, part 4
... :-) Heute habe ich sieben World Heritage Sites besichtigt... Morgens bin ich zunaechst nach Uji gefahren, ein Vorort von Kyoto (20 Zugminuten), war einmal bekannt fuer seinen Tee, heute eine von vielen kleinen Staedten in der Osaka-Kyoto Ebene. Sie ...
Jetlag! Or not...?
... his slumber Richard finally decided that that was it and he got up! It was 3:20am. Kept himself busy with some internet research on Kyoto and realised that the Liverpool v Atl. Madrid game would be live from 4 o'clock. Score! So he watched 70min of ...
Kyoto & Osaka
... a local favorite, takoyaki (octopus cooked in dough-like balls), as well as some tasty ramen. In Osaka, as well as the rest of Japan, pachinko "casinos" are pretty popular, so I stopped in for a second to check it out; the noise and smoke sent me running, ...
Last full day
My last day in Japan and last day with Ang was really fun. We made sure we got a lot done, but also took it kind of easy and explored areas we hadn't seen around our hostel yet. The hostel had bikes we borrowed and road down to find food. The sunset was ...
Templed and touristed out
... but to move at all. The Kyoto Imperial Palace was the third and final leg of the tour. Although an Imperial Palace, Japan's Emperor has resided at Tokyo's Imperial Palace since 1869, when the capital was moved there. It was not possible to ...
ASH: Do you rub leggae?
Um, actually, no we didn't. Someone is misremembering the first night in Kyoto. But that's quite alright, because I was so amused by this night, I decided I wanted to write an entry in the Travelpod blog for once, anyway! ;-) So what actually happened ...
Apr 24, 2010
Model Houses, Uniqlo, Moss Temple
... a half mile west of the model houses I'd visited a couple of days before. Aeon is a major shopping center developer in Japan, and their Jusco stores are a major discount chain. Except for some men's white shirts on sale for ...
Shinkansen, Snow and Potion
... but if we could we'd love to get back to wherever the snow was for a day because it was sooo pretty. We got to Kyoto after about 2 and a half hours and headed out to the taxis. Interesting ordeal. We handed over the map that Nat had printed off of ...
Shinkansen, Snow and Potion
... but if we could we'd love to get back to wherever the snow was for a day because it was sooo pretty. We got to Kyoto after about 2 and a half hours and headed out to the taxis. Interesting ordeal. We handed over the map that Nat had printed off ...
Hospital Today. Perhaps now the road to recovery
... . It might not happen so I'm not stressing about it. If it happens then it happens and I'll deal with it then. In the meantime, japan had become a write off and I must get better for my trip round china starting on the 13th. At the end of that, when I get ...
Kurama Onsen and Picnic in Osaka
... it was a national holiday, and we readily agreed. My other mission was to get washing done - I had not seen a single laundromat in Japan and Paul said I could do it at his place first before we went to the picnic. Of course, we didn't consider quite how ...
Kyoto
... job of showing off his city to me he also taught me a lot about Japanese culture and religion. The two main religions in Japan are Shinto and Buddhism. Yo considers himself a little of both, apparently that is very common. The first shrine I went to ...
Nijo Castle
... , but unfortunately photos were not allowed. But me and my guide, talked about many other things; our life in general, studies, travel, Japan, Europe etc. There were two things that stood out bout him. Firstly he was very tall for a Japanese guy, maybe 1 ...
The end.
... I can now get a pretty good reading on the vibe of Japanese cities, as opposed to simplu viewing them as Japanese. Kyoto seemed to me, for whatever reason, to be a Japanese cross between Washington DC and San Fransisco. Though Kyoto didn`t ...
Kyoto and Japan
... little Japanese lady, then met up with S and A to swap news and plan the day. Cashed in our JR Rail Pass in Kyoto Station - a fantastic building - found English maps of Kyoto at the Info Centre and then headed into downtown Kyoto to find a place for ...
Imperial Palace
Today I visited the Imperial palace in Kyoto. There has been some kind of royal residential at this site for over 1000 years. But because everything has always been build by wood, it has burned down several times. When the Emperor moved the capital to ...
NICK: Golden Week: Kyoto II
... have much rather preferred them to put them spread out, it feels like there's more pauses in the year. Ashleigh and I decided Kyoto would be the best place. We booked our hostel 2 months in advance, bought our bus tickets the day they became ...
Faster than a Speeding Bullet.
Places: Bullet Train And that brings us to today, which will be our busiest one so far. We had a 6 a.m. Start (not so bad in that some of our internal clocks are still international clocks and it feels like 4 p.m.) We rushed through breakfast (more rice ...
Kyoto
... room with 6 random people so should be interesting! not really looking forward to it as everyone seems really anti-social! Had a full Kyoto style Japanese meal for dinner which was interesting! i Really want to try Japanese food, but some of it is hard ...
A Tale of Two Festivals
The Jidai Matsuri (Festival of Ages) is one of the most somber and joyless expressions of humanity I have ever witnessed. The parade, its members dressed in the most wondrous & magnificent costumes, walk slowly one after the other, divided by ...
Temples
... on the platform. We were heading home right at rush hour, so Jess and Adam were able to experience the subway (sardine can) in Japan. It was a big tight for 20 minutes. We had some good conversations between the little Japanese that I know and the English ...
More beige
... a lot of really cute school kids hanging around. After, we walked around a food market and generally, I spent my first pleasant day in Japan with this man. Asair left me in Gion to go back to work so I proceeded to walk around, espy geishas, and try to ...
Kyoto
... On se croyait sur un coussin gonflable. Tout en douceur et silencieux. Il a pris 2h30 pour faire 450km. Donc a Kyoto nous avons trouve une auberge de jeunesse ultra moderne. Siege chauffant pour les toilettes accompagnees de musiques pour eviter ...
Turning Japanese - out and about
... and paddle around in slippers - great news for us, not sure about the receptionist). First off, Kyoto on the Shinkansen (Bullet train). Grasping our Japan Rail Passes, we set off at breakneck speed to the ancient capital of Japan. On normal trains ...
The magic and mysteries of Kyoto (part 1)
... geishas which are so rarely seen in public... more on that later. I've got to say that Kyoto, like Yangshuo in southern China, is quintessential Japan. It's got a booming tourism industry but still retains so much charm and wonderful sights as to ...
Characters running in Kyoto
...Boy we are still jet-lagged, this is almost unreal. We are starting to feel like one of the locals. We shop at the local market and convenience store. Use the city bus and experience what the local people experience. We have no problem enjoying ...