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Naoshima day 11; Cycling in the world of art
... de Japanse variant van een B&B zeg maar) zo blijkt. Na een korte rondrit op het eiland wordt ik gedropt , voorzien van een fiets om me over het eiland te verplaatsen, aan mijn het Chichu Art museum, mijn eerste stop voor vandaag.
Het museum bevindt zich volledig onder een heuvel en is ontworpen door Tadao Ando. Met het gebruik van staal, beton en glas wou hij een museum ontwerpen waarbij het gebouw zelf als een werk gezien ...
Olive Island OR Scam?
Another early start and we bid farewell to Hiroshima and hit the expressway to Shodoshima. The island of Shodoshima lies in the Seto Inland Sea and belongs to Shikoku Island and to reach it we had to ferry the car across the sea form the mainland (Honshu). A totally new experience for me as I think ferries are for people but my mother recounted that until she moved to Australia ferries were something cars went on as well as people ...
3 suns and one star...(well it felt like it)
... project started to repair the roof and plaster work. The castle was built about 400 years ago and was showing cracks etc. It had survived many civil war, earthquake and bombing in WW2 that destroyed all of himeji apart from the Castle. So this morning of we went on the wee hotel bus to the train station, and hopped on the 10.20 'rapid' to Himeji. It was packed with young people heading out to the beach etc. Now the online timetable said ...
Kyoto and Himeji
... The visit was good, but not what it should have been... Without the main tower, most of the magic is lost. I particularly did not appreciate paying the normal fare (600Y) and then, once in front of the main tower which we could not see, pay an additional 200Y to see the restoration works! In my view, I paid 200Y more than usual not to see the usual thing the 600Y gets ...
We Made It!
Hello everyone! We made it safe and sound to Shioya. Japan is gorgeous and full of people. Kobe has 8 million people, about the same population as NYC. The Kobe-Osaka-Kyoto triangle has about 20 million altogether which is roughly the same size as NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philly, San Antonio, and San Diego put together.... so yeah, it's a lot of people. The area is so packed that, before getting a car, the police have to come give you a ...