Kyoto day three, Ginkaku-ji and the Philosopher’s Walk

Tuesday 11/8:
The second post of the day was Ginkaku-ji, or the Silver Pavilion. Since seeing the golden one last time I visited Kyoto, it was time to do the silver one. I knew it wasn’t gone be as grand as the golden one, not actually being silver colored, but it was close to the Philosophers [...]

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Kyoto day three, Fushimi Inari

Tuesday 11/8:
Our third day in Kyoto was gone be a busy one. I had still lots of places to see on my to do list, and not much time left.
The first post of the day was Fushimi Inari, a mountain of thousand red tori gates, and on of my biggest recommendations if you are going [...]

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Kyoto day two, eastern Gion and Kiyomizu temple

Monday 10/8:
The next day we were woken up to nothing less than an earthquake and a typhoon at the same time! The earthquake was the biggest one so fare, 6.9 in Tokyo city. Unfortunately (I know I should say fortunately, but I can’t help thinking earthquakes are exiting, as long as no one gets hurt. [...]

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Kyoto day one

Sunday 9/8:
It was Sunday, and time to head of to Kyoto. We were taking the shinkansen (fast train), and it was the first time for me. For some reason I had got it into my head that the shinkansen was leaving from Shinjuku, and not Tokyo station, but luckily we had put in enough slack [...]

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Oshima continued

Saturday 1/8 – Sunday 2/8:
After visiting the volcano we bicycled down the mountain again, but not on the side we came up, but the other side! The advantage of this was that we came to a small town with a great beach that we could swim on. The back side was that we now was [...]

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Oshima and the volcano

Friday 31/7 – Saturday 1/8:
My very last days in Japan were closing in and it was time for my last full weekend together with Kojiro. That’s why we had made some extraordinary planes and were going away for the weekend, to Oshima.
Shima in Japanese means island, so to get there we were travelling by boat. [...]

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Kumakura and Enoshima Island

Sunday 26/7:
Again it was one of those wonderful weekends packed with events, all thanks to Kojiro and his excellent abilities as my personal Japan guide. This Sunday we were going to Kumakura, a popular place best described as a sort of “mini Kyoto” outside of Tokyo.
To start of the day, we had an excellent breakfast [...]

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River climbing

Sunday 19/7:
Waking as early as 6 in the morning, we could enjoy a delicious breakfast made by Kojiro’s mother consisting of rice, egg and sausage, plus a tuna salad.  There wasn’t gone be much more food that day, so it was a lifesaver and much appreciated.
Kojiro’s family has been so nice to me so fare, [...]

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Climbing Fuji-san part 2

Saturday 23/5 – Sunday 24/5:
So we made our camp close to station 5 and set out exploring the area with our extra time. We took a lot of foggy pictures, with a little sun here and there. Here is an example of the landscape above the three line. The “something something” degree slope was pretty [...]

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Climbing Fuji-san, part 1

Saturday 23/5:
Ok, here it comes. After writing about a countless number of mountains that I have climbed here in Japan, I am actually gone write about a mountain you all sure have heard about before, mount Fuji, or Fuji-san.
3776 meters tall, which makes it about 1000 meter taller than my last and my highest ever [...]

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