Tag: museum
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Celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary in Sapporo
Coming all the way to Hokkaido, Benno wanted to visit an Ainu culture museum. Ainu are the indigenous peoples of Japan, the last remnants live in Hokkaido. The Sapporo Ainu Culture Promotion Center, Pirka Kotan, was at the end of a subway line followed by a 40 minute bus journey. We got on a number…
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Kobe, city of earthquakes
We were told that we had to leave the house by 7.30am so we got up early and had porridge for breakfast and headed out. We took the subway to the JR station then caught a train to Kobe. We arrived in Kobe a few minutes before the tourist centre opened so we waited to…
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Himeji Daytrip
We used our seishun 18 kippu to catch the train from Nara to Himeji via Osaka which took 2 hours. In Himeji we walked the 15 minutes from the station to the famous castle. We wandered around Himeji-Jo, the main keep, the stage where samurai commited suicide, the outer walls, the western baily and the…
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To-kae festival in Nara
Walked to the train station and caught a local bus to some World Heritage temples to the south west of Nara. The first temple, Yakushi-ji, had 2 impressive pagodas on either side of the main hall. It had some interesting buddhist statues but was a bit noisy due to construction and rennovation being done on…
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