Tag: japan

  • Kyoto Imperial Palace

    Kyoto Imperial Palace

    At our first day in Kyoto we went to the Imperial Palace only to find that we needed to book a tour at a specific time. As soon as this happened I of course remembered that this is exactly what happened last time I was here.

  • Kyoto by Bus – The Golden Pavilion

    Kyoto by Bus – The Golden Pavilion

    I like trains. Iโ€™ve mentioned this before, several times. I donโ€™t like buses. Buses were part of my commute to high school for several years, but I never enjoyed them and after a while I just started walking from the train station to school. Today, armed with a transit map and a rough bus timetable…

  • Fushimi Inari Taisha

    Fushimi Inari Taisha

    After the morning, that turned into most of the day, trip to Nara we caught the train back to Kyoto Central. Mum headed back to the hotel, dad and I caught another local train just a few stops to visit Fushimi Inari Taisha. It is a very popular place in Kyoto to visit for locals…

  • Day trip to Nara

    Day trip to Nara

    The day started with the standard can of coffee and random rice spicy rice thing for breakfast from a convenient convenience store on the way to the station. We caught a local train from Kyoto to Nara, just over an hours trip. I hadn’t previously been to Nara, on my last trip I had stayed…

  • Looking for Mount Fuji

    Looking for Mount Fuji

    … and Confusing Americans When planning our trip one attraction we did want to see was Mount Fuji. We read up on the best places to go and visit, I checked with a friend from work, and it definitely sounded like the best idea was to go to somewhere where we could see Mount Fuji,…