Japan part III - Himeji and Kyoto
May 4th 2014 One palace covered, one palace not covered
In the end of this trip in Japan we went to Kyoto. Kyoto was for more than a thousand years the capital city of Japan and still today there are thousands of historically important sites in and around the city. Before we came to Kyoto we thought the entire city would resemble a museum. Instead we came to a city that wasn't much different f
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Tara Cloud
No old town?
So surprised to hear that Kyoto looks like any other city! I guess I imagined those 2000 shrines, etc, bunched together in a European, old-town sort of way for a sense of old Japan. Still the bamboo grove and castle were pretty gorgeous.