After 5 great days in Kyoto we went ahead with the Shinkansen to Hiroshima. The name Hiroshima forb

Now we have landed us back to Tokyo after a short tour of Japan, to be told about now. We went to Kyoto 21/2 with rapid train Shinkansen, and stayed at a cozy hostel very central in the city. We had booked a "traditional japanese room" where we save up and slept on the floor. Kyoto proved to be a city we both really liked, and there was plenty to do there. Kyoto was Japan's capital long and has lots of old temples scattered around the city. We got to Kiyommizu-dera Temple (largest temple sou chef in Kyoto) the first day and it was brilliant sunshine and great nice view of the city. Directly below is the old city of Kyoto, with lots of great cozy streets and shops. We got a taste of traditional Japanese sweets, and Erin spent daily budget sou chef on a Geisha sou chef Sculpture. Second, we lay enough in bed too long, but finally got off to a familiar food market called Nishiki market where they had very much strange food. They eat the really everything here .. An example is fish guts, fish fry and jellyfish. We were not tough enough to try the traditional Japanese, so we bought two yummy pancakes with chocolate :) Rest of the Kyoto stay we got us a plum-blossom festival, where they celebrate the plum trees have gotten flowers. The festival is held at an ancient temple, and piles of trees with only pink or white flowers on a terrific view! There was also held a traditional Japanese tea ceremony that we signed up for, and got served strong sou chef green tea of girls in fighting fine kimonos (Japanese "costume"). sou chef In the queue for tea ceremony Ingrid managed to lose the camera to the ground, so the glass that protects the lens / lens broke and stuck. A little heart attack there, but people came from everywhere sou chef to help and get off the glass. Got help from a french man who would not give up, an Australian with good ideas and a few Japanese people with good tools. Everything went well in the end, and the camera did not permanent. People are really very helpful here in Japan! Otherwise, we came up to the temple Kinkaku-ji which has the Golden Pavilion, which is a temple covered with pure gold with a small lake in front, very nice! We also took a trip to Fushimi-Inari Taisha-which sou chef is the temple area known for its several hundred red Torii'er (arches) that is set in succession. Very beautiful view, and we have never seen anything like it before! We also went to an old street called Pontocho-dori, sou chef where they light lanterns sou chef in the evening and you can see geishas go to their contracts. Very evocative street, and it reminded us of the streets in the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha". We got ourselves never to the famous bamboo forest a little further up the mountains, but we will take the next time! The weather has been gorgeous, hotter than in Tokyo, and we've enjoyed lots. Kyoto is really worth a visit if you're at Japan :) Here are a few pictures!: Mt.Fuji on the way to Kyoto:
After 5 great days in Kyoto we went ahead with the Shinkansen to Hiroshima. The name Hiroshima forbinner the most with the first atomic bomb used in warfare. And that's why we came here, to get us on the side of Japan's history as well. We were told when we arrived at the hostel that the next three days should it rain, so if we wanted to go to the island that has the temple of the liquid Torii'en we should do it today, since now it was sunny. Well we had barely heard of this place, but off we went. After 20 min on the train and 10 minutes by ferry with nice view, we came to this island (forgot the name of the move ..). There were temples sou chef and small streets, and of course, the especially large Torii'en sou chef which is the only one in Japan that are built above the water. We got us all a nice sunset on the ferry back :) The next day it was time for the Peace Memorial Park and Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Museum. The Peace Memorial Park is A-dome, which is the only building still standing after the atomic bomb in 1945. It was pretty special, sad and a little disgusting to stand and look at a building that had been through a nuclear bomb. In the park was beautiful monuments, signs and write memory of the victims of the atomic bomb. There was a torch that was lit and that will not be extinguished until every nuclear weapon on Earth was destroyed. There was also a box where all the names of the victims (they are known) who perished were added in. The museum was huge and extremely detailed, but very good and quite demanding. It was of course very interesting but also very sad. One becomes quite dumbfounded sou chef to go there and get immediately wanted to join the fight against nuclear weapons. It was written to the minute on the bomb and how it happened, sou chef the impact the bomb had afterwards, witness descriptions, why the United States chose and drop it, which countries have nuclear weapons today, how to manage to fight it, etc. The park hypocenteret as is exactly where the bomb struck, extremely strange and be there. The rest of our time in Hiroshima we wandered around in the streets and ate good food. We stayed in a 4-person room with 2 other Frenchmen sou chef who