Em in Ryokan Tanabe

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April 25th 2010
Takayama was the mountains. We should probably have figured it out before we got there, but we didn't expect even colder temperatures than we'd experienced in Kyoto. We got them. It was frickin' cold. Baltic. Canadian almost. But really that just made it seem all the more... mountainous. We got the train out from Kyoto and trudged uphill to the Youth Hostel at the top of the town. It wasn't yo ... read more

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more

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