And here’s a shot of Kyoto Station that’s exposed correctly for the levels of light in the concourse, rather than for the levels of light on a tray of donuts up on the balcony, unlike my previous post. 🙂
Category: Japan trip 2014-2015
Another one for Rachel
Sitting in Kyoto Station, eating Mister Donut, looking out over the concourse.
Gachapon!
Japan has a lot of vending machines. On any given corner you can find vending machines selling hot drinks, cold drinks, hot soup, etc.* You can also find ones similar to the machines dispensing toys in U.S. supermarkets, and these are gachapon machines. You put in your money and you get out a plastic ball…
Fox Shrine
This morning, Toby and I decided to head up to the Gioji moss temple and the little fox shrine that Rachel Manija Brown and I had found near Gioji on our 2007 trip. I couldn’t remember which station we’d gotten off at on the previous visit, and the hanare we’re staying at for this visit…
Miyajima Island, Part 4
Otherwise known as: Shit’s on Fire, Yo. Anyway! Toby and I rendezvous’ed at the big map at the entrance to the main shrine at 4:30. We were both tired and sore and cold and wet as it had been raining chilly rain off and on all day, so we found a cafe that served tea…
Miyajima Island, part 3
As Stephanie mentioned, we split up after some time on Miyajima. We could do more damage that way. I headed up toward the Miyajima ropeway.
Our good deed for the day
Trudging through the ice and snow to Nijo Castle, Toby found a very nice Sony phone lying on the ground. We looked around to see if anyone had obviously just dropped it, but no one was close enough. So he picked it up and we continued walking. We got to the parking office for the…
Hmmm
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Miyajima Island part 2
Is there fire yet?
Eerie
The wind is blowing and knocking snow onto the roof with a thundering sound. Might be a night for earplugs! Sent from my Apple ][e