Kankaso Nara

... lipunmyyjien kanssa ja olisin ostanut liput vaikka maailman ympäri! Titityy!

Seuraava ajatus oli, että mennään Kiotoon ja jatketaan siitä Ujiin maistelemaan hiukan aamuteetä, mutta toisin kävi. Yleensä näillä Japan Rail passeilla ei pääse tuohon kaikista nopeimpaan N700 junaan, mutta nyt jostain syystä sellainen kuitenkin laiturille lipui?! Tästä innostuneena päätettiin, että nyt kun kerran kunnon vauhtiin päästään, niin jatketaan kyllä taatusti pidemmälle ...

... noin 10 minuuttia, eikä siinä ehtinyt kuin lyödä ahterinsa penkkiin ja avata teejuoman, niin oltiinkin jo perillä! Shin-Koben asemalta lähdettiin kävelemään (tietysti taas) kohti Kobe Lumierea ja löydettiinkin paikka parin kilometrin talsimisen jälkeen.

Ja kannatti kyllä kävellä, koska tosi komea oli tämä Lumiere ja aivan mielettömästi oli tullut ihmisiä sitä katsomaan. Valoista oli tehty ikään kuin kirkon seinät ja massiivista kirkkomusiikkia raikui ...

... of youth culture. Much like Time Square in New York .... lots of lights and lots of shops. There were thousands of people on the streets. Went to a fantastic noodle shop for dinner ... had an udon noodle bowl with a soft boiled egg. Also ate some deep fried noodle snack. It was all delicious.

Stopped at Starbucks again before cathcing the subway home.

Sorry not able to load any pictures today .. will put some up as soon as I can.

... things. Again, I wished we'd had more time.

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OK , on to the photos to tell the rest of the story!...

P.S. The photos are in the wrong order, sorry:) They are correct in the editor, so I don't know what's up. "If debugging is the process of removing bug, then programmings must be the process of putting them in!" Gotta laugh along with life:)...
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... of your paper, any size and shape, coz they will eat it up.

Todaiji is the largest wooden structure in the world and houses the world's largest buddha statue in the world. It was built in year 728.

As we came out from Todaiji, we decided to visit another world's heritage site. The Kasuga Taisha Shrine.

It is a Shinto shrine built in year 768 AD. It is famous for its bronze and ...

... de test niet... al snel verdwenen ze uit het zicht zonder dat wij onderweg afval moesten ophalen...) Vanmorgen zijn we met de trein naar Nara vertrokken voor een dagtripje. Nara was de eerste hoofdstad van Japan )3 kwartier met de trein vanuit Kyoto). Nara heeft 8 bezienswaardigheden die als Unesco werelderfgoed zijn aangmerkt. We hebben Nara-Koen bezocht. Een groot park met ongeveer 1200 wilde herten. We hebben de herten ...

... which sits in the woodl*nd *nd the entr*nce to it is fl*nked by hundreds of stone l*nterns, *lso in the woodl*nd is * W*k*miy*-jinj* which we didn't see much of. Once we left N*r* *nd got b*ck to Kyoto we he*ded to Mus*shi Sushi, for our first *uthentic sushi experience! It w*s conveyor belt sushi *s this is * bit che*per, but still very good, but we did spend some time trying to m*tch up wh*t we h*d picked to the photo-menu! Chris *nd K*te

Our next port of c*ll w*s N*r* - the former c*pit*l of J*p*n (710 to 784). It w*s considered the cr*dle of J*p*nese culture, *rts *nd cr*fts; *ll of which *re still present tod*y. N*r* is * be*tiful pl*ce to visit with m*ny sites listed on UNESCO's World Herit*ge List. We *rrived into N*r* vi* tr*in from Hiroshim*, *fter * quick tour *round the m*ssive city of Os*k*. We were me*nt to ch*nge tr*ins in Os*k*, but we hopped on the wrong one. H*d to w*it *t ...

... red colour. Then she patted everything down with powder. We were on our way to being geishas. After getting our makeup done, we were led into yet another room, where a different girl fitted us with wigs. The wigs were very heavy. It made my head hurt a little. Then we went back to the kimono room where they proceeded on to fit us with the many many many layers of clothing, before putting on the kimono and finishing it off with the yukata that wraps everything ...

... shelves where we must put our shoes. You walk through a hallway of the temple and out to a broad porch that looks on the rock garden. We each take some time to look at the garden and think of what the rock arangement signifies. Reen notices the porch continues along another side of the temple and sees a rectangle which has many tall trees and the a very lush moss covering the ground. And again around the back side, there is a 2 foot wall and on top ...