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Currently on the road with Mum and Dad. So far our travels beyond Tokyo have included: Kyoto's Heian Shrine and iris garden; staying in a hotel right near the giant crimson
torii gate of the Heian shrine in North East Kyoto, close to Gion Corner; following the Philosopher's Walk in East Kyoto - Gingakuji (Silver Pavilion) with spectacular sand formations and beautiful garden; the carp-filled stream and bursts of blue and pink blooming hydrangeas; calligraphic poetry exhibition; Nanzen-in (Temple) with aqueduct and gardens - frogs' eggs hanging in the trees; Kiyomizu-yaki (Kyo-maki) pottery village and Kiyomizu-dera (Temple) high on the hill amidst an extended garden in the tree canopy and tofu restaurant; Nishijin Textile weaving Centre; Aizen-kobo indigo dyeing; Sagano
Bamboo forest and Arashiyama soba restaurant and snow monkey park up a steep humid climb with mountainous views over the River Oi; Kyoto Bontanic Gardens; Inari (fox) temple with the passageway of hundreds of vermillion torii; Nikko's magestic thousand-year-old cedars, Toshigu shrine; Mashiko pottery village, former home of Shoji Hameda, National Treasure and member of the mingei craft movement that strived to preserve traditional craftsmanship in Twentieth-Century Japan, also the indigo dyeing studio and woodblock exhibition; and today, a rest day at the office, Tokyu Hands and Shinjuku by evening for the neon lights and
shabu shabu dinner.
Currently on the road with Mum and Dad. So far our travels beyond Tokyo have included: Kyoto's Heian Shrine and iris garden; staying in a hotel right near the giant crimson torii gate of the Heian shrine in North East Kyoto, close to Gion Corner; following the Philosopher's Walk in East Kyoto - Gingakuji (Silver Pavilion) with spectacular sand formations and beautiful garden; the carp-filled stream and bursts of blue and pink blooming hydrangeas; calligraphic poetry exhibition; Nanzen-in (Temple) with aqueduct and gardens - frogs' eggs hanging in the trees; Kiyomizu-yaki (Kyo-maki) pottery village and Kiyomizu-dera (Temple) high on the hill amidst an extended garden in the tree canopy and tofu restaurant; Nishijin Textile weaving Centre; Aizen-kobo indigo dyeing; Sagano 
Bamboo forest and Arashiyama soba restaurant and snow monkey park up a steep humid climb with mountainous views over the River Oi; Kyoto Bontanic Gardens; Inari (fox) temple with the passageway of hundreds of vermillion torii; Nikko's magestic thousand-year-old cedars, Toshigu shrine; Mashiko pottery village, former home of Shoji Hameda, National Treasure and member of the mingei craft movement that strived to preserve traditional craftsmanship in Twentieth-Century Japan, also the indigo dyeing studio and woodblock exhibition; and today, a rest day at the office, Tokyu Hands and Shinjuku by evening for the neon lights and shabu shabu dinner.
