Trips for Kiyomizudera

After a long-haul flight that commenced in NYC, soaring above the vast Pacific Ocean, connecting in Tokyo/Narita Airport, landing in Osaka, and an hour-plus bus ride, I arrive at the former Imperial City of over 1.4 million. My mission: to make a …

Pictures For complete trip albums, go to Flickr @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jauderho/sets/72157602229609984/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/princesskonishi/sets/72157602234704887/ Most of the pictures were shot with a Canon 5D or Powershot …

On our first night out we went to Shibuya which is a part of a Tokyo. It had everything you would expect from Tokyo skyscrapers, neon lights and lots of people. On our second day we decided to first check out the Imperial Palace where the current …

My husband and I decided to take the trip of our lifetime to Japan. We traveled to eight cities in fifteen days. We were tired and sweaty the whole time, but it was great. The following is my trip report for Tokyo. We flew on JAL airlines. …

We landed at Kansai International in the afternoon, and made our way to Kyoto by the JR limited express train. Too late and too tired to explore the temples, we walked from Kyoto Station to the hotel passing Higashi Honganjii. The hotel, Ikoi-no-ie …

Day 1 of the trip. We are staying at the F1 Hotel tonight, and getting on the plane in the morning. Travelled down to Darling Harbour. looked around for some last minute souveneirs, and continued on to the hotel. Dad's Navman took us to the …

March 10 and March 11th, 2008 I wish I had been brave enough to tell my boss that I needed Sunday off to pack...but with already extending my one week vacation to almost three weeks...I went to work. I had been logging so many hours to meet …

We've updated a lot of photos from our trip - the link below will give you a much easier way to view them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8346341@N03/sets/. Happy viewing - let us know what you think :) We left the house yesterday at 4:30 AM …

Arrived in Kyoto today. Met up with Lauren in the Narita airport (ended up being fairly easy to just wait in the bag claim area for her flight to get in). Went from the bag claim to the JR Rail Pass area (well, first we went to 2 ticket booths …

We finished packing (I think), now we're trying to stay up as late as possible to get a head start on adjusting to the 16 hour time difference. We'll see how that goes... We're in Japan, aka "the future"! After 18 hours of traveling we finally …