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Travel Blogs from Toyonaka
Weer of geen weer!
... weer aan en zijn toen een ticket gaan kopen om de beroemde Kiyomizu tempel binnen te komen.
Het was gigantisch en mooi compleet van hout en bij het maken van de funderingen is er geen spijker/lijm/cement gebruikt! De fundering en gebouwen zijn allemaal in elkaar geschoven of op elkaar gezet. Binnen kon je meer souverniers,amuletten en dergelijke kopen maar ik heb niks gekocht. Er waren binnen het complex verschillende tempels aan wezig voor verschillende Goden ...
Orange Torii and Fox Spirits
... back, we got slightly sidetracked by the fact that we saw them “cremating” the torii. The old, rotten torii that had been taken down were being chopped into smaller pieces and burned. I liked the idea of the torii being cared for like people in Japanese society… but that might be the romantic in me. Either way, I had never really thought about the torii having to be replaced, or even realized that they couldn’t be as old as ...
Tokyo to Kyoto:
... as you walk in it sucks you away from the city. Timeless. Rain started to fall, while we were there. We hid under some temple eves.
Following, we walked through the neighborhood surround the temple. We got some tangerines or mika. They were being sold by the basket. I only wanted one or two. The shop cheaper said that would be 250 yen or around 3 dollars. “For how many?” “1, 2, or the basket.” ...
Hiroshima, and then Kyoto, and then Tokyo
... I know that I at least had. But, I loved Kyoto. Megan loved Miyajima, and I certainly thought it was awesome. But for me, personally, a bustling city holds an attraction that the more peaceful rural areas could never hold. And Kyoto had that for me, but the really attention-grabbing thing for me was these temples and castles that were just strewn through the city - and again, liked I'd imagined, some were idyllic gardens on the outskirts of the city, but others were ...
Hello, Higashiyama
... a little ambiguous as to whether the monument was for Japanese soldiers specifically or for all unknown soldiers of WWII. I suspect it was a case of conflicting political opinions as to its purpose, but it could have just been translation problems.
Off to the side of the main temple, partially obscured by overgrown vegetation, was a small sanctuary vaguely in the style of a Christian chapel with English inscriptions declaring the dedication of the monument to "the ...
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