Category: Travel Destinations
Yokohama Doll Museum
You don’t have to be a doll aficionado to enjoy the Yokohama Doll Museum. It starts with...
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Cute Buddhas
During Golden Week this year, I went back to what I consider to be the best temple in all of...
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Traditional Japanese Farmhouse
Gassho-zukuri farmhouse in the wonderful “Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Houses” in...
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Japanese Inn
Old Japanese inn in the Arashiyama district of Kyoto. The stickers are called Senja fuda, which...
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Old soldiers at Yasukuni Shrine
WWII veterans marching through the gates at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine. _
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Great Buddha of Kamakura
The Great Buddha of Kamakura. _
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Showa Kinen Koen
It’s a bit out of the way so I didn’t see many other non-Japanese people there, but...
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Locked Temple
Locked temple in Kamakura. _
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Otagi Nenbutsu-ji Temple in Kyoto
Arashiyama is one of Kyoto’s most beautiful neighbourhoods, and hundreds of thousands of...
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Rakan Butsuzo
Some Buddhist statues are serenely beautiful. Others are terrifyingly ferocious. But every once in...
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Coffee Cup Grave
Corporate grave belonging to UCC, a company that makes coffee. Located in Okunoin, a graveyard on...
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Hirosaki, Aomori, and the Tsugaru Region
Aomori is a vastly under-rated destination, but a visit to Hirosaki and the Tsugaru region can be...
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