Kyoto’s having a snowstorm right now. We’re eating at an Italian restaurant in Kyoto Station because there was a huge line at the elevators to go up to the department store floors with the restaurants. After this, it’ll be time to check in and we have to figure out how to get to the ryokan…
Author: Stephanie
View from the tub
Yeah, it’s kind of a pain to get into, but you can’t beat the view.
Fire!
More about the fire festival n Miyajima Island later, because we’ve gotta run for breakfast shortly, but here’s a photo of young men carrying a flaming torch, as the descriptions of the festival promised.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you schmoes still in 2014! Sent from my TRS-80
Thief
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Still cold
But they did eventually set things on fire. Sent from my TRS-80
Cold
Been standing in the rain for an hour at this festival and nobody’s set anything on fire yet. Sent from my TRS-80
Hiroshima Ichiban!
Today started with an early dash to the station to catch the 8:39 Shinkansen to Hiroshima. We had breakfast at the station–seriously, there’s good restaurants at train stations here–and then got on the train. Continued under the cut: food report and a quintessential Japanese okonomiyaki experience!
A couple of photos from the Osaka Aquarium
Only a couple of photos because it’s a pain to edit photos on the iPad. I’ll wait til we get back to post more. The Kaiyukan Aquarium is a five-story aquarium that features animals and habitats from around the Ring of Fire, the tectonically active zone that circles the Pacific Ocean. It’s five stories tall,…
Ahem
Toby would like you guys who like green tea Kit Kats to know that after taste testing you can keep your green tea Kit Kats as long as he gets all the orange Kit Kats. Sent from my TRS-80