Trips for Kinkakuji

8/7/08-8/9/08 - The flight nearly took 2 days. I got on the flight from JFK at about 10 and made a stop in Vancouver for a couple of hours, then continued the flight to Hong Kong International Airport and transferred to a Tokyo flight. Crazy …

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 …

Thursday, March 24th: It seems like only two weeks ago that I was standing out in front of Seoul Station - in the blustery cold - waiting for a bus to take me to Incheon airport. Oh yeah...it WAS about two weeks ago. The trip this time is a …

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 …

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 arrived in Tokyo around 4:00, and took the limousine bus to our hotel. The Kudan Kaikan hotel is just outside the grounds of the Imperial Palace. By the time we arrived, however, it was too dark to see anything. We showered and went to eat …