West Lake Hotel Kaitorou
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Tea Time!
... and wasabi paste. You dip each bite of noodles in the sauce as you eat. The Japanese slurp their noodles, this is considered polite. The cha-soba was delicious-easily one of my favorite Japanese meals. When we were nearly finished, one of three older Japanese ladies at a nearby table-who had been observing us-tried to talk to us in a combination of Japanese, a few words of English that one of her companions prompted her with, and expansive ...
... 52 Weeks
... asks me how I get around without speaking the language. Foreign languages are no great obstacle. Thai, Tagalog, Javanese, Japanese, I treat all of them with the same approach as I equally know none of them—I’m fluent in pantomime. A young lady from South Korea, with an almost panicked concern on her cute face, asks if I ever get lost in foreign cities. I get lost in EVERY city. What do you do? She asks. I find myself. A friend in Mexico asks if I ever get ...
Return to Kyoto
... driver, who let me off at the nearest city bus stop for no charge. It could have been worse. When I was finally on the correct city bus, I happened to be riding when a woman was asking the driver about bus route changes for the festival, apparently they will be closing some of the streets, and I grabbed a copy of one of the maps he pointed to. It should come in handy this weekend.
The family running the hotel had kindly gotten my room ready for check-in a ...
Catching Up
... up with Yuka while enjoying a famous dish. I've always been skeptical about okonomiyaki, especially since the name translates to "whatever you like." It's basically a cabbage pancake prepared almost pizza-style and topped with a variety of things; everything from egg to curry sauce to pork to seafood, you name it and they can put it on there.
Tomorrow's agenda is to go to Nara, to Todaiji Temple, which is famous for having housed ...
Reaching Zen: Temples of Kyoto
... is called Kannon-den and despite it's name of Silver Pavilion, there is no silver on this building. It got its name from the original plans to coat the building with silver. Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the grandson of the shogun who created the Golden Pavilion, modeled his vision after his grandfather. And just like the Golden Pavilion, the focus of the temple was to provide the Shogun a place for solitude and rest. Yoshimasa was going to coat the pavilion in ...
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