Trips for Kyoto Imperial Palace Park

PROLOGUE I am making this journal to hopefully inspire people to grab their bag and travel around the world This was my first trip alone outside of Canada, its a hastily planned trip so there were a lot of things that Ive overlooked like when …

Trip to see Lisa for the second time since Tokyo Aug. 26-29 after four month deployment at Al Udeid AB, Qatar. Going to see her in her and her parents in their home town of Himeji. Stayed in Osaka and visited Kyoto, Kobe, Osaka

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 …

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 …

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 …

Japan, here I come! After a six hour flight, we finally reached Japan. Actually, I have transited at Narita Airport so many times before, but this was the first time, I could really say 'I'm in Japan'. So exciting! Shinkansen: from Tokyo to …

Wow!! It has been 2 weeks, and I`m creating this journal at Kansai Airport, Osaka. It had been a great vacation I had, visited a lot of places, from North to South of Japan. For People who have only 2 weeks in Japan like me should look at my …

Authum is one of the most beautiful season if you want to visit Japan. I spent almost two weeks in Japan last November, it was a wonderful time when I saw leaves were turning into red mixed with a very green mos