Nakasendo from Magome to Tsumago
19 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C
Amazing experience walking an ancient postal route between Japanese villages. Of course it was over 95 degrees so we all looked like death at the end
Ryokan Fujioto
19 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
This ryokan (traditional Japanese inn) is beautiful, with wood everywhere and a gorgeous common garden. We immediately took showers in the singke bathroom for the whole inn. It's a huge room that youЧитать далее
Nakasendo (Magome to Tsumago)
19 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Took an hour long train to Nagatsugawa and a 15 minute taxi in Megome. After dropping the bags for transport to the town we will stay at for the night, we started on the 6 mile hike through theЧитать далее
Dinner at Ryokan Fujioto
19 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Dinner was fantastic - 9 different local dishes introduced by our sweet Japanese server with a lot of smiling, bowing and some follow-up questions from us.
When we were planning this trip, I was aЧитать далее
Nakasendo route
19 июля 2018 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C
Nagoya castle
20 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
We had a quiet final morning in Tsumago with a walk in town after breakfast, then took the train to Nagoya.
Nagoya Castle was badly damaged in WWII and is being restored, so it's not open. But a 17thЧитать далее
Grand Sumo in Nagoya
20 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
After the castle we made our way over to the Dolphin Stadium for the quarterly Sumo competition. It goes on all day for two weeks, we caught it on day 13. The matches are in order of rank, from theЧитать далее
Shinkansen (bullet train)
21 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Nagoya to Kyoto. 65 miles in 30 minutes.
Kyoto day 1
21 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
It doesn’t take long to see what the fuss is about Kyoto
Kyoto - Southern Higashiyama
21 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
After dropping our bags at the hotel, we headed out to explore. A taxi dropped us off to walk up the Gojo-zaka road to the Kiyomizu-dera Temple. Along the way we saw tons of Japanese tourists trickedЧитать далее
Gion - Okonomiyaki & Maiko
21 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ 🌙 29 °C
After a short rest we took the Kyoto subway to the Gion district, where after a few false starts (restaurants are busy and tiny) we wound up at an okonomiyaki/teppanyaki restaurant that was great. OfЧитать далее
Kyoto - Fushimi-Inari-Taisha Shrine
22 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C
Headed out today anticipating another long walk. This shrine is one of the ones we were most excited about. The walk up the forested mountain is shaded by a series of 10,000 orange tori gates. AtЧитать далее
Fushimi Inari
22 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
Daimaru department store food court
22 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
After lunch we took a taxi to the Daimaru department store pretty much exclusively to see the food department. It was fantastic, with loads of prepared foods, high end grocery items and quite a fewЧитать далее
Arashiyama Monkey Park
23 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C
Tenryu-ji Temple & Bamboo Forest
23 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 35 °C
Kinkaku-ji
23 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 35 °C
This was the most common site on the trip
Daitoku-ji
23 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C
Toby and Alex getting their zen going
Kinkaku-ji Temple
23 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
So. Many. People.
But it's really beautiful.
Daitoku-ji Temple
23 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
We have been surrounded by masses of people all day, and it's been sweltering. But we saw some really, really great stuff so we weren't really annoyed.
Then we get to this complex of many small zenЧитать далее
Last night in Kyoto
23 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ 🌙 31 °C
Gion for dinner, we will miss Kyoto but I know we will be back someday!
Kyoto - Gion Matsuri festival parade
24 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C
Kit Kat tasting
24 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Top - raspberry & goji/almond
Middle - cherry cheesecake, dark green tea & sake
Bottom - light green tea & cookies/cream
Suginami Animation Museum & Monster Cafe
25 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Very cool museum about 45 minutes from anything else, which was kind of a pain. But it was worth it, there were a lot of great exhibits about how to make anime including some hands-onЧитать далее
Picture is worth a thousand words
25 июля 2018 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C



























































































































































