Photos From Japan

Kim and I visited Japan for a few days in August 2006, after visiting Korea to attend my brother Graeme's wedding. We flew from Busan, Korea to Fukuoka, Japan. Then we took the Shinkansen express "bullet train" to Kyoto and spent a couple of days looking around. Our last night we stayed in Osaka.

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Arrival in Fukuoka	Trying to figure out what to do next	Please stand inside the yellow line, smoker-San	The Shinkansen bullet train	Japanese countryside, from the train
Passing through Hiroshima	Train departures	Back streets of Kyoto	Our traditional room at Riverside Takase	Kim in our room
Coming up from the Kyoto metro	Outside the National Museum of Modern Art	The massive, ancient San-mon gate, which has a shrine on the second level	Looking down from the second level of San-mom	The second level of San-mon
Kim on the second level of San-mon	Andy on the second level of San-mon	The Hojo temple	The shrine inside the Hojo temple	Kim and the Hojo temple
Andy and the Hojo temple	The entryway of the Nanzen-ji temple, dating from 1291	Nice (dining?) room in the Nanzen-ji temple	View of the Zen garden from within Nanzen-ji temple	Gardens of Nanzen-ji temple
Gardens of Nanzen-ji	Gardens of Nanzen-ji	Gardens of Nanzen-ji	Gardens of Nanzen-ji	Gardens of Nanzen-ji
Kim taking snaps inside Nanzen-ji temple	Gardens of Nanzen-ji	Gardens of Nanzen-ji	Andy leaving Nanzen-ji	Sub-temple of Nanzen-ji, called Nanzen-in
Nanzen-in, and gardens	Waterfall in gardens outside Nanzen-in	Nanzen-in, and gardens	Temple (?) behind Nanzen-ji	Small shrine of Nanzen-ji Oku-no-in
Andy at Nanzen-ji Oku-no-in	Kim at Nanzen-ji Oku-no-in	Just a nice entrance, to a home perhaps?	San-mon gate	Another little temple we stumbled across
Same little temple	The shrine inside the little temple	Grounds of the little temple	Massive gate at the entrance to Higashi Hongan-ji temple	Gate at Nishi Hongan-ji temple
Another really cool gate at Nishi Hongan-ji temple	One of the buildings in the Nishi Hongan-ji complex	Downtown Kyoto	Back streets in downtown Kyoto	Some very puzzling but endearing entertainment
Andy at the Imperial Palace gate	Kim at the Imperial palace gate	Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Temple	Kinkaku-ji built in 1397	Kinkaku-ji rebuilt in 1950 after a fire.
Kinkaku-ji	Andy and Kim at Kinkaku-ji	Couldn't decide which photo was better.	Smoke from incense offerings, outside shrine at Kinkaku-ji	Traditional dress, near Kyoto station
Kyoto tower, and a whole lot of taxis too	Our room at Shiritsu Nagai Youth Hostel in Osaka. Inside a massive sports stadium.	I managed to trap this fellow as he made a break for the inside of our room. He was even bigger with his legs on	Riding the metro in Osaka	Kim taking snaps in Osaka