Autumn Leaves Season in Kyoto and Thanksgiving in Hiroshima

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November 23rd 2009

Published: December 5th 2009

The Shinkansen ride from Tokyo to Kyoto was fun. It's an incredibly smooth ride considering you're on a train reaching speeds of up to 180 mph. It happened to be a gorgeous day and from my window seat I watched town after town blur by. At one point I looked up from the book I was reading to see Mount Fuji, seemingly so close, snowcapped and surrounded by blue skies. In just a few quick hours I... Read Full Entry

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Downtown Hiroshima

Having been rebuilt in the last 60 years, Hiroshima is a modern, clean, cosmopolitan city.

Okonomayaki

Served throughout Japan but different everything. In Hiroshima, this plate was a hodge podge of meats, eggs, a pancake like thing, udon noodles, octopus, some kinda of sauce... delicious.

Marie & Adua cooked a traditional Moroccan dinner for the rest of us... Tajine

It was deliciious... chicken, vegetables and mushrooms... served with bread... Typical couchsurfing... my first Moroccan cuisine I have homemade in Kyoto.

Kinkakuji again...

Covered in gold leaf foil... former home to a Japanese shogun

Beautiful details on the temples

Random Buddha somewhere

Sorry for all the Autumn Leaves photos...

Ryoanji zen garden

Another part of the Ryoanji Garden

And again

Notice this tree supported by stilts in the pond

again at Ryoanji Garden

9th December 2009

Lindalou Kelly
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FABULOSO!!!!!!
Wow what a treat, Mahalo for letting us see all the splendor and beauty of japan thru your eyes. Just returned to kauai. Happy to be back. I'm sure you heard of the 50' surf. Love Linda and Bob

16th September 2010

Kiyomizu - This big temple was so gorgeous at night...

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