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Catching Up...Again...
... we all went to a culture show in the Gion district, where we witnessed a koto demonstration, chado, Kyoto-style dance, a comedy show, gagaku, and bunraku. The show was an hour long, but felt much shorter; I wanted to see more bunraku, especially. The movements of the puppet were so intricate and graceful that it seemed impossible that more than one person was controlling it.
THURSDAY, MAY 26
Today's train ride seemed ...
Lazy boys
... just stay in the local vacinity as there is so much history here with it being located so close to Nara. It was odd to bump into an American or two who looked as if they worked here, maybe archaeologists? With the Japanese map from the info centre we set off on foot to explore. Megumi was very surprised by my love of history and how I really appreciated all the old japanese traditional houses. I told her about my desire to build a Japanese after the 1st earthquake ...
Western or Asian now that is the question
... into a non-opening money box so drove us crazy trying to shake it out. The noise was horrid! As there were no parking spaced Megumi and Nasna stayed in the car whilst Ryan and I took Subasa to the temple. Well Jesus what can I say it did not disappoint. It was so mind blowing to see the original Nandai-mon wooden gate in all its non restored glory and the wooden Nio guardians statues inside were crazy! I am really appreciating these scary warrior dudes and I am ...
Our first day in Osaka
Thursday March 31st
We didn't set any alarm and had a good lie-in, ate a breakfast of Aldi muesli and headed for the Loop Line. David got us sorted out with our Icoca cards, which can be used on most transport throughout Japan, and off we went. First stop was the Tourist Office where we got a map of the loop line and subway in English.
Next stop was an 8 floor electronic store stocking everything you could imagine, ...