Last Thursday, the statutory holiday gods shined upon Japan again. I chose to take Friday off of school as well, and spent 4 days touring Kyoto and Nara with Alexis. It has been said that if there are two cities that are a "must see" in Japan, they are Tokyo and Kyoto. Kyoto is a city you can spend days upon days in, and always have new sites to see. It is home to 17 designated World Heritage Sites, and is a city of classic Japan, complete with temples, zen gardens, and even the occasional geisha sighting (in fact, Gion, one area in which the novel Memoirs of a Geisha took place, is in Kyoto). Alexis and I had our days full with sites to see! In Kyoto we saw To-ji, a temple and also home
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