Hikone, Japan

... ). In the meantime though, we had another distraction to detain us beforehand: the annual Hikone Castle Festival. The Hikone-jō Matsuri is not one of Japan's most famous by any stretch. By appearance, it doesn't even seem to show on the national ...

... next day we travelled to Kyoto. Yoji took the scenice route for our benefit, driving alongside the largest lake in Japan and stopping in Hikone to see the castle. Here we also tried matcha - traditional green tea which is thicker and made from ground ...

... predeccesors). I have no idea what to expect, and they'll be here in 20 minutes! AHH! On Friday we visited Hikone Castle and had a JET barbeque in Nagahama afterwards. There was this amazing 10 year old kid Benjamin from New Zealand there. I ...

... 15 minuten mit dem (normalen) Zug entfernt von Nagahama (aber auf der anderen Seite von Maibara). In Hikone steht eine der originalen Burgen von Japan, 1622 erbaut. Einiges wurde abgerissen, aber der zentrale Turm hat ueberdauert und steht heute noch ( ...