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Japan Tour 2025 Day 18
The final tour day started with a ride on the bullet train from Fukuoka to Osaka, a trip of two and a half hours. The ride was very smooth, but the train didn’t give any indication of how fast we were traveling. Generally, the train travels up to 200 mph. Notable on this trip and what we noticed all around southern Japan, is the significant number of tunnels you go through. I can’t even estimate…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day 17
The first stop was the Clover Garden in Nagasaki. This open-air museum exhibits the mansions of several of the city’s former foreign residents and related buildings. It is located on the hill where Western merchants settled after the end of Japan’s era of seclusion in the second half of the 19th century. The main attraction of the garden is the Former Glover House, the oldest wooden Western-style…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day 16
Kumamoto Castle was completed in 1607 by Kato Kiyomasa, the first feudal lord of the castle. It was innovative in its design and construction for the period. The castle is a hilltop Japanese castle – large and well-fortified. A large earthquake in 1691 did considerable damage to the castle and outbuildings and reconstruction is ongoing. Leaving the castle, we headed to a tea museum & workshop…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day 15
After a 3-hour ride, we arrived at Amano Iwato Shrine in Takachiho built near a cave where Amaterasu (Shinto sun goddess) was hiding from her brother’s cruel pranks, depriving the world of her life-giving light. We had a tour of the cave by a priest. The path to the cave has thousands of stone statues piled along it. Amaterasu deprived light from the world until another female deity performed a…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day #14
Started with a morning walk around Lake Kinrin a place of scenic beauty representative of the town of Yufuin. It’s a small lake with a perimeter of about 400 meters. With all the water gushing out from the bottom of the lake and mountains the lake is replaced 2 and a half times a day. It was a cloudy day but we did see some of the noted mist off the water but no reflections could be found. One…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day #13
Today, we took a ferry to the island of Miyajima, a cultural world heritage site. This is considered one of the three most scenic spots in Japan. If you haven’t figured it out by now, everything in Japan is one of the three best. The main shrine on the island is Itsukushima, dedicated to three goddesses who are worshiped as the deities of the seas. It was first built in 593 and then remodeled in…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day # 12
Udon Cooking Workshop in the town of Takamatsu-Kagawa, making and eating our own lunch. To break up the 3-hour drive to Hiroshima we spent an hour walking through the 300-year-old town of Kurashiki. A pleasant stroll along the Kurashiki River. A-Bomb Dome – was the only structure left standing in the area where the first atomic bomb exploded on August 6, 1945. Peace Memorial Park – a memorial…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day #11
Awa Odori Museum – Highlights the world-famous traditional Awa Dance. Also seeing demonstration of traditional instruments and dress. Ritsurin Garden – is a large historic garden in Takamatsu Japan. It was completed in 1745 as a private strolling garden and villa for local feudal lords. It is one of the largest strolling gardens in Japan. The garden features six ponds and 13 landscaped hills.
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Japan Tour 2025 Day #10
Started the day at Arashimaya Bamboo Forest located in the village of Sagano in Kyoto– and with a rickshaw ride among its soaring stalks of bamboo was other worldly but it was a fun experience. Also, a highlight of the area is the Togetsukyo Bridge, which is 155 meters built across the Katsura River, a well-known place of scenic beauty – so they say. Our next stop was the Golden Pavilion, or…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day #9
Our first stop of the day was the Samurai Ninja Museum in Kyoto, where the legendary world of Samurai and ninja comes alive. This interactive, hands-on museum is where Samurai dress, armor, and skills come alive. Ninja swordsmanship skills, blowgun techniques, and shuriken throwing (we tried our hand) are demonstrated. Fushimi Inari Shrine is dedicated to the Shinto God of Rice. It is famous for…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day #8
Todays first stop was at the Higashi Chaya District of Kanazawa. A chaya (tea house) an exclusive restaurant entertained by Geisha who performed songs and dance -during the Edo period they were situated outside the city limits. Now, the district is a well-preserved vision of Edo-period buildings. The gold leaf was pretty good also. The next stop was Nomura-ke Samurai Heritage Residence. Former…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day #7
The first stop of the day was at the Sakurayama Hachiman Shrine and the Takayama float festival exhibit. Takayama is noted for both a spring and fall festivals. The festival started 350 years ago as a simple village ceremony and now is a competition among neighborhoods. There are usually 11 to 12 floats in each parade with some dating back to the 17th century. We moved on to visit Takayama’s Old…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day #6
The first stop was at the Azumino Wasabi Farm, one of Japan’s largest wasabi farms. The farm has multiple large fields with a network of small streams, providing each wasabi plant with clear, flowing spring feed water about 60 degrees from the Northern Alps. The fields are also protected from the summer heat using large black tarps. Within the farm stands the Daio Shrine. Today’s drive continued…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day #5
There was a lot of driving today. We went first to see Mt. Fuji from Oishi Park. Too bad Mt. Fuji was totally snow-covered and shrouded in clouds—the pictures were not that great. Mt. Fuji is surrounded by five lakes; we drove around Lake Kanaguchi to get our “views.” Next, visit Itchiku Kubota Art Museum, showcasing 29 of his famous kimonos – pictures not allowed – some details @…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day #3
Today, we headed to the Imperial Palace East Gardens, where the main keep of the original castle (Edo-jo) was located. The gardens were nicely laid out, but as with the Cherry Blossoms, flowers were hard to find. We did not get to see the new Imperial Palace because the tour was sold out three months ago. Leaving the gardens we decided to walk the adjacent Nihombashi district with the goal of…
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Japan Tour 2025 Day #2
The morning began with adjustments for time zone differences and a lesson on how to use Tokyo’s extensive rail system. We headed to Ueno Park for its Cherry Blossoms, ponds, temples and museums. All were outstanding except limited Blossoms – extreme cold weather and snow a few days before we arrived are pushing the season out. Some of the park’s highlights included The Statue of Saigo Takamori…
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