Parces Inn Kyoto
45 Fushimi-ku Shimotoba Higashi Serikawa-cho Kyoto, Kyoto, Kinki, 612-8395, Japan
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Day 10 Kyoto
... rooms were out of bounds, but we caught a glimpse of the painted doors and the structures themselves were very impressive. Half way through the tour we were shown into the Emperor's garden and as you can imagine it was beautiful! The guide told us that the emperor and his friends loved to sit by the gentle flowing river and at one end saki in cups would be sent down the stream. The aim of the game was to make a 31 syllable poem before the saki passes ...
Arriving in Hiroshima
... keeping is impeccable. After booking into our hotel we literally ran out the door and walked the 3 minutes or so to the Peace Memorial Museum designed by Tange Kenzo and also visited the A bomb dome. The view from our hotel room is fantastic overlooking the museum, river, city, mountain & the A bomb dome. Going through the museum was a very humbling and ...
Lessons in Japanese culture, 1 - 4
... pack.
Observation 3: Politeness
Japan is already cool as ****, with a culture that could silence any American attempt at color, fashion, history, and attractiveness. And as I learned in lessons 1 and 2, they are the cleanest and most orderly people I have ever seen. They have every reason to be scoffing at the sweaty, stinky, blubbering American tourist. Not so. In fact, the first time I ...
Sunday April 10th
... round the floor please'. The toilets were minimalist - no toilet paper, soap or towels. Then out past the souvenir and food stalls and on to the next temple - Ryoanji.
We paid our entrance fee (500 yen) and headed in. This is the home of the famous Ryoanji Zen Garden. Dave managed to convince us that the table model was actually the garden, as in everything to do with a garden is done in minature in Japan, so I took ...
Kyoto banks are like israeli snow...
... to do.
so, we took the train to hirashiyama to see the 'second most amazing place in kyoto' as the lonely planet describe it. after a huge bowl of ramen and a few kilometers of speed walking we arrived to a small path that goes through a bamboo forest...the dense green barks of bamboo were very nice but i guess it wasnt that important to go there.
taking the train back to kyoto we understand this is the last time we will use the JR ...


