For our very last day in Japan, we headed out to Itsukushima island, better known as Miyajima. The island is home to several shrines and temples, a lot of deer,…

After Kyoto we made one more stop before heading home. We spent two days in the western Honshu city of Hiroshima. Famous for its role in ending the second world…

After we left the aquarium we headed into the central part of town. Osaka had a lot to offer and it was already mid-afternoon when we left the aquarium. Here’s…

Osaka, Japan’s second largest city, is only a short train ride from Kyoto. We spent a full day there in the middle of our Kyoto stay. We started our tour…

For our last few days in Kyoto we saw some bamboo, a castle, more shrines, and a preserved street.

As much as that may sound like a Harry Potter knockoff, it’s really the names of two places in eastern Kyoto where we walked one day. Kiyomizu is a neighborhood…

After five days in the megalopolis of Tokyo, we rode west to the old imperial capital city of Kyoto. A tenth the size of the current capital, Kyoto is extremely…

Tokyo has two well-known nightlife districts that attract locals and tourists by the droves. We spent about the same amount of time in each, but I took many more photos…

In our week in Tokyo we visited four shrines, each of which featured something different. We saw pagodas short and tall, smelled incense mild and strong, and walked alone or…

After some fifteen years of trying, we finally made it to Japan. We started in Tokyo and stayed in the Nihonbashi neighborhood near Ginza. Our hotel was across the street…