We took a short train ride and a boat ride to Miyajijma Island. I (Paul) jogged up to the highest peak on the island with an altitude of 538m over 2.5km. It took me 44 minutes and it was very steep and difficult. It was also a lot of fun. Lisa took the `Rope Way` via a cable car which was most of the way. She then met me at the summit and we wal...

We tookt the ferry this morning over to Miyajima island and stepped off the ferry only to be greeted by a bunch of roaming deer and school kids. We walked towards the floating tori and took a few pictures, we were surprised to see it with water around it and not sand like we had seen in many photos. There are a bunch of trail leading up to a loo...

I had a great half day at "one of Japan's three most beautiful sights", but the bit I'm dying to get recorded is what happened at lunch. About noon I ran into a French-Canadian from my guesthouse named Phillipe. We spent a couple hours hiking down from the top of the cable-car peak and began looking for a restaurant with growling stomachs. We fi...

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Today I took the train from Hiroshima to Miyajimaguchi and from there I took the boat across to Miyajima Island. There was a large shrine, the Itsukushima Shrine, which was in the water. When the tide is in it looks like the shrine is floating on the water. I was lucky because the tide was in when I got there. There were also a lot of wild deer ...

As part of my trip to Hiroshima, I took one day to travel to the island of Miyajima in the Japan inland sea. It's a beautiful island with great views, many shrines, monkeys in the mountains, and really tame deer that just lounge about in the shade of the trees (I have some good video of that). The island and its famous shrine, Itsukashimu shrine...