Rise Ville Tsugayama
Travel Blogs from Moriyama
Walks and Music
A decent lie in was mared somewhat by an unplesant dream and waking up to an overworking, cluttered brain. Blow. Aiden and I took a 50mins bus to the north east of the city (the hotel and train station are central south), and visited the silver pavillion. Unlike it's gold counterpart it is not actually silver. Maybe it used to be but then got all embarassed and gave up when its flahser, richer compardre ...
Kyoto
... to Ryoan-ji temple. It had a very beautiful Zen garden within the temple. The lake upon entering the grounds was covered with lilies and lily pads. Had I had my paints, brushes and canvas, I dare say I could have given Monet decent competition. They were so incredible and vivid in color. I couldn't get over the gorgeous moss covering the ground where the trees were. It was just like a velvet carpet. So tempting, I had to step over the barrier and wriggle my toes in the moss. ...
Talas is putting a damper on our vacation
... of this restaurant is free refills of the shredded cabbage, miso soup and rice. The food was absolutely amazing and the portions were sizeable. Now satisfied, we retired to our hotel to refresh ourselves and take a break. In the evening the rain had subsided so we decided to venture out. Unfortunately, most shops here close relatively early and there wasn't much to do. We ended up sitting down at a Liptons cafe ...
Ancient and modern
Kyoto and Nara to be exact. I couldn't miss out on the Golden and Silver temples, the largest bronze Buddha in the largest wooden building in the world and as I discovered by happy timing; the Aoi Matsuri festival.
These guys take their festivals seriously, so I took the super fast Shinkansen down from Tokyo to get involved in the hustle as soon as possible. I turned up just in time ...
Kyoto - Round 1
... we stuffed ourselves on steak, chicken and jack daniel's sauce plus free refills of ginger ale - a common mineral over here.
Then we went in search of the cherry blossoms. They were just beautiful in the night light, and crowds of people were out with their cameras. None of ours were good enough to capture them properly, but at least we were there. And TGIs and the cherry blossoms had managed to restore our good humour.
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Other places to stay in Moriyama
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Laforet Biwako
2876 Imahamacho Jukkenya, Moriyama | Hotelfrom $99 -
Hotel Omi Moriyama
15-14 Umedacho, Moriyama | Hotel -
Moriyama Art Hotel
50-1 Harimada-cho, Moriyama | Hotel
