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    Okayama

    20. april 2024, Japan ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    Yesterday's last minute decision to go to Okayama gets me to a bus at 6:06 in the morning and I get to Okayama before 11:00.

    I meander on over to the castle and to the Japanese garden where I spend most of the day.

    On the way back I find a lot of young people selling used US clothing and they are kind of counterculture the way they're dressed and act. This is near the University also right below my hostel is a bar where a band is setting up.

    It turns out they had about five bands playing I caught the last one which was a small college band, they sounded great. I met Yudai who is handling out pamphlets for his funk band party.    Les mer

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    To Kyoto - food fest

    21. april 2024, Japan ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Late Sunday morning wake up and easy train ride too Kyoto. I was going to try to eat less today but that will not be working out. There is just way too much good food around the stations, mostly bakeries with a Japanese twist on french pastry staples.

    Today the crowds are enormous, the most I've ever seen and this is the Japan that the tourists usually see. Even in Okayama for a Sunday morning there was a crowd.

    Excellent lunch with view from the 11th floor in Kyoto.

    I ran into a piano that is open for the public. But I wouldn't try to play there even if I was moderately excellent. The level was very high. Spring sonata by Beethoven played by young woman on the violin accompanied on the piano by her teacher. The big guy played a known piece but in a very different way, super amazing talent.

    3 hours later and I still haven't left the station to go into the city.

    Kyoto is exactly the Japanese city that I was anticipating seeing. It's the Gion ward that has the narrow restaurant lined walking streets. I found a blues and a jazz cafe. I might he save to stay longer in this city.    Les mer

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    Kyoto walk

    22. april 2024, Japan ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    I'm walking all over the city again. For part of it I have Oliver's company through WhatsApp. It's great do do a little show and tell. There are 1600 temples in this city. I walk to the 5 story tall pagoda that once was built by Kobo Daishi. But like almost all old buildings in Japan a fire demolished the original and it has been rebuilt many times.

    I walk by the Nishiki market, it's busy with tourists but once out of there I find a Nigiri specialty shop where I but two delicious pieces for dinner too enjoy on the river bank which is lined with people sitting outside in the overcast but warm weather. For all the lack of music in Japan so far, Kyoto is quickly making up for it. By the river are two groups playing and I'm going to have to get up close.

    As I do I see a sign for a free walking tour. I join up with them and enjoy a very informative two and a half hours in neighborhoods I had not seen yet.

    The young Dutch guy Flo on the hostel is talkative and I spend two hours with him in conversation. Good to talk your native language. Interesting chap too.    Les mer

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    Rainy Kyoto morning

    23. april 2024, Japan ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    It's going to be a rainy day in Kyoto so I get out early to beat the crowds and the rain. Within an hour I take already more than 20 pictures that I find amazing. Kyoto is an enormously photogenic city. You do have to fight the tourists though, oh wait I'm one of them.Les mer

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    Kyoto in style

    24. april 2024, Japan ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    Ran along the river, first run off the the year, I can still do it. Grabbed a salad at Family Mart, sat by the river and received a visit from a heron.

    Checked out of the hostel, walked to the theatre, where Miyako Odori is showing the 150th performance of this traditional Japanese dance, only for the month of April. It sold out early. A young lady tells me it is sold out and I say yes, it's too bad. Then she says are you just one person? It turns out there is one ticket for the tea ceremony and show left. I get to attend this event after all.

    For some more rainy day cafe time, I pick a new place on the 3rd floor overlooking the river. Cheers! Life is great.

    There is strictly no photography at the performance. So the memory is engraved in my brain instead.

    Dinner is at a nice restaurant on the river. Time to pick up my back pack and hike to the next hostel also in Kyoto. There is an Onsen there with an electric shock bath, I let it hit my calfs.    Les mer

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    A sunny day in Kyoto

    25. april 2024, Japan ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    With a nice weather I decide to go for a hike in the woods to a temple up above that was recommended by the guide from a few days ago. It feels great to get out and hike again and get sweaty. The woods are beautiful but not at all like Yakushima. The ground is wet from all the rain that fell in the last two days.

    Once I get to the top, there's only a very long way to hike down so I take the gondola and then the cable car down to the river where I hang out with some lunch food. Then it's a train back to Kyoto City and I decide to walk to the confluence. There are a lot of people mulling about on this wonderful afternoon. A young couple is playing some bluegrass on guitar and mandolin and I sit down right next to them to listen. They laugh a lot. A professional crew is shooting some photography of a model also with the river background. Little ducklings create quite the stir with photographers.    Les mer

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    Relaxing day

    26. april 2024, Japan ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Late start, quick look at the imperial palace, hang out by the river and fall asleep in the grass. The anticipated sunny 80 degree day does not materialize. I go into the cafe in the 3rd floor again and get some tablet work done. Then off to the local all Japanese Onsen.Les mer

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    Travel day

    27. april 2024, Japan ⋅ 🌙 16 °C

    Golden week is supposed to be this crazy busy period of Japanese holidays. I planned to travel this day without thinking about it. I'm bracing myself for the hordes only to find the train stations no worse than normal. I arrive in the dark at my hostel in Miyako. I'm tired, long day.Les mer

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    Stunningly beautiful coastal hike

    28. april 2024, Japan ⋅ 🌙 14 °C

    A stunning beautiful sunny day in the mid-70s. After all the rain and cloudy days this is exhilarating. On top of that I'm doing a hike in the woods on single track along a coastline that is absolutely mind-blowing. If there's heaven on Earth I think I'm living it.

    It's a fairly long hike and I don't know exactly how much time it will take or what to expect so I'm putting in a great effort and I'm flying along. What is surprising is the amount of stair steps and how steep the trail goes up and down. I also take time to enjoy the views. Good mix.

    But I know there is a bus at the end to take me back to town. Then I go to the store to stock up on food and I run into a Sunday afternoon tennis match by high schoolers. It's exciting to watch from the bridge vantage point.

    I make dinner and have great discussions with three Japanese who are also hiking the trail and are doing the same thing basing out of my hostel. With all the pantomine it is actually pretty funny and we laugh a lot.    Les mer

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    Shimanokoshi coastal hike

    29. april 2024, Japan ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    4:45 My internal clock wakes me up there's a hint of daylight and I dash out of bed to make the 5:00 a.m. train and I actually catch it.

    On a bench in the train station in Shimanokoshi I meet two Japanese hikers who are going the opposite way. I encounter them again somewhere in the middle to great shouting and yelling and having fun seeing each other again. Missed getting their picture.

    What an unbelievable place to hike, it is yet another sunny seventies day. While walking I am startled by a Serow, a type of Japanese deer. It doesn't run off and just stands there in the woods looking at me so I stand still and look back at it. As I'm standing quietly there for some 10 minutes it finally goes about its business and I get to observe it in it's natural habitat. They were almost extinct and in 1955 the Japanese government intervened. Their numbers have recovered completely, but according to my Japanese trekking friend it is a rare sighting.

    Being still in the woods has its rewards. Forest bathing in absolute quiet on the edge of a cliff overlooking the water through the trees, all I could hear was the distant rhythmic rumbling of a diesel engine of a ship far ashore. Bird song played the chorus. It's a deep feeling of pre-historic nature.

    With time left on my hands I managed to walk another 6K to get another viewpoint on the shore. Back at the train station I run into my bunk mate from the hostel who has all kinds of questions for me as he is hiking this section tomorrow. We spend the evening discussing everything I saw and get him prepared.    Les mer

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