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Shirakawago, Kanazawa & Kyoto
We awoke this morning for our last traditional Japanese breakfast at the minshuku. Afterwards we relaxed for a little bit and then headed out to wander the main street of Shirakawago on our way back to the bus station for our bus to Kanazawa. We browsed through many of the small shops, picking up a few souvenirs along the way.
Once we got …
Exploring Kyoto
After what seemed like a very short sleep (due to our late night laundry last night) we awoke and had breakfast in the hotel. Kent enjoyed having some western food (bacon!) available again.
Once breakfast was done, we met up with the group and headed out to explore Kyoto. Our first stop was Teramachi Shopping Arcade (an outdoor shopping …
Mt Fuji
... because Kelcy lost her wallet. We were allowed to shop in the station itself for twenty minutes, but I would have loved way more time there because the shops were so good. We then went into the adjoining department store, where the shops weren't so good. We met as a group briefly, the went to eat. Hayden and I had the most amazing caramel frappucino from Starbucks, then walked around and found Soup Stock ...
Osaka - where smog abounds!!!
... them – free plug here! The t-shirt has been really positively received with many Japanese people thanking me for loving Japan and talking about Australia (well attempting to anyway with lots of hand gestures, etc again!!)
As the sky was a horrible pukey colour, no more photos were going to be taken by me as those of you from the previous “blog-a-thon” would know that most of my photos have to look better than just happy snaps – don’t ...