Category: Travel
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Miyajima
We traveled to Miyajima Island to see the Itsukushima Shrine and the Otorii gate. The shrine, appears to be floating on the water at high tide and on stilts during low tide. We arrived as the tide was coming in and got to watch it transform. We walked around the town and tried lots of…
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Owl Sanctuary
We got to visit a place where you could visit the owls. Some we could pet on the back of the head, but not all of them. They look so fake! It was a hoot!
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Bengal Cat Cafe
We had to get a little kitty time. One of them almost immediately curled up in Aris’s lap and stayed there the whole time. It wasn’t too long before Daya had a lap cat too. One of them jumped up onto my back, which was funny. We really loved their grumpy faces.
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Archery
It was so hot outside, we were extremely thankful this was inside in excellent air conditioning. Our instructors gave us traditional Japanese uniforms to wear and helped us into our deerskin gloves on our right hands. The glove must be deerskin and it must be worn on the right hand. Lefties weren’t allowed in ancient…
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Okonomiyaki – Hiroshima Style
This dish, originally began in Kyoto and is a little different there. In Hiroshima it began as a way to cook whatever you had after the bombing when food was scarce. they start with a very thin layer of batter like a crepe. Then the load it with cabbage or green onions, we got one…
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Bamboo Forest
In Kyoto there is a Bamboo Forest the grass thinks it’s trees the air is hot, the shade is pleasant the ants below desperate for the perfect insta Aris is the star of our perfect insta.
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The Mountain is Out
I was knitting in the morning while everyone else was still sleeping and I saw that the sky had cleared. Not sure how long it would last, I just ditched everyone else and went out to catch it. There were lots of people out enjoying the morning. I think there was some kind of fishing…
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7-11 in Japan
There are 7-11 convenience stores everywhere here and they are full of quick foods. Our favorite is the egg salad sandwich on the yummy white bread. But there are so many crazy things to try. We got some wild stuff, like a chicken salad bar. Egg salad breakfast.
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Dinner in Kawaguchiko
Aris found us the best reviewed restaurant in the area and we walked through back alleys and past immaculate vegetable gardens full of perfect corn to get to this restaurant. We were concerned that the reviews were all bots or something because there so glowing. The place was quite trendy looking. Bar seating and 2…
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Tenoshima
Our experience at a 3 Michelin star restaurant. There was seating for a maximum 16 people here. There was one other family next to us with 2 kids, vastly younger than our 2 kids, and a couple seated at the bar behind David and Daya. by the end of the night the two kids at…
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