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Ninjas!!!!
... a local speciality called Iga beef. Very tasty.
My next stop in the park was the impressive Ueno castle, sat atop a hill overlooking the town below. The castle was quite small but housed a treasure trove of samurai and ninja items. Also the view over the town from the top of the castle was fantastic, so I took the opportunity to take a few pictures.
My final stop in Iga for the day, was the Basho memorial museum. Matsuo Basho was ...
Road Trip
... style hotel) so we thought maybe it was the place. We were all very new to Japan and the language so it was a bit of the blind leading the blind. We wondered around the outside nature trails before we went inside to have lunch and enjoy the onsen. Lunch was great. It was a traditional meal of rice, tempura, sashimi, and miso soup. Afterward, we had to figure out how to pay for the onsen. There was a machine with many choices where we were supposed ...
Toba (continued from Ise Trip)
Z took his mom to see the Mikimoto Pearl Museum and divers while she visited us in 2011. They watched the divers and viewed the museum and had a great time. Z said there were many interesting facts about how the pearls are made and the process they go through to make the jewelry and other ...
The Day we visited the Ninja and the Deer
... the ancient capital that was celebrating it's 1300th birthday this year!
Nara, surprisingly, is what I expected Kyoto to be like. A bit quiet, but authentic and it had a great atmosphere. We weren't there for that long and I really regret that. Next time, I'm definitely going back for the entire day and stroll around Naramachi.
That being said, seeing as it was quite late already, we hopped on the bus to Todaiji ...
Ninjas!
... used to attack and defend. It was pretty impressive to see. Afterwards, we walked to the castle of Iga Ueno, which was nearby. It wasn`t that big, but it was still very beautiful. Knowing we would visit the castle in Himeji later on our trip, we didn`t go inside. We walked back to the station and took the train back to Kyoto, where we rested for the rest of the evening.
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