Hozu River Gorge
Right next to the bamboo forest and Tenryu-ji temple is the eastern end of the Sagano Railway, which is a tourist train that runs through the Hozu River gorge in…
Tenryu-ji Temple
By the time you get to this point in a trip to Japan you start to get “temple fatigue”. Temples all start to look alike you you get an ever…
Bamboo Forest
Kyoto is pretty spread out and the sights are all around the city so we chose to group things together so we could hit more than one without a lot…
Hyatt Regency Kyoto
There isn’t a huge selection of hotels in Kyoto — a number of properties known to Japanese travelers but for western travelers there is either the Westin Miyako or the…
Stone Lantern Walk
All of the temples and the deer are located within an area called Nara Park, which is really a 300 year old forest that surrounds all of the historical temples…
Todaiji Temple
After being molested by the deer, who by the way are considered to be messengers of the gods (here’s their message: Gimme a biscuit!), we walked over to Todaiji Temple.…
