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Sorry, no new entry today. I’m too tired. We visited four different temples and one museum today, and we’re wiped out. On top of that we had the excitement of buying shoes in a foreign country. (Tracie discovered that she’s worn out the sole of one of the boots she’s been wearing; if she doesn’t [...]

I believe that it’s something of an FAQ in the U.S.: What do people in Asian countries have for breakfast? Once we learn that they eat seemingly strange things like raw fish and seaweed, breakfast foods seem particularly mysterious. Based on the breakfasts I’ve had today and yesterday, both of which were described as Japanese, [...]

Nevermind what I said previously about reverse-chronological order; it looks like I’m going to skip around. Here are photos from our day in Asakusa. It might be interesting to look at last year’s photos from the same area and compare the foliage. We were here earlier in the spring last year, and the cherry trees [...]

Tracie just flipped through the photos in the previous post and suggested in no uncertain terms that I’m an “idiot” for not putting in any of me. So, here are two photos of me:

Here’s the first batch of photos. I guess I’ll at least start by going in reverse-chronological order. We’ve already taken over 900 photos so it’s a little daunting to decide where to begin when picking some to post, but I’ll just dive in.
Here are photos from Hase-dera temple and its surroundings. I’m not going to [...]

This is a test… Just one photo:

Let’s see whether this works. If it works, I’ve found the problem. (The problem was that the default timeout parameter in BlogDesk’s site properties is too short for a dial-up connection.)

We’re now in Kyoto. Tracie sums up our feelings about the Hotel Granvia with one word: home. She uttered this monosyllable just after one of the cadre of impeccably polite, uniformed young women showed us to our room (thanking us three times for waiting, once for the elevator’s arrival, once for its ascent, and once [...]

Today we visited the Hase-dera temple near Kamakura. Hase is also the home of the Daibutsu, the great statue of Buddha that we visited last year. (Actually we visited two great statues of Buddha last year. The one at Hase is the one that’s outdoors and is greenish with verdigris.) We intended to go to [...]

On Tuesday, the day after the one we spent with Tamae, we had a leisurely stroll around Asakusa. This is the same area we visited last year so I’m not going to try to describe it all again. You can search on my site for “Asakusa” to find last year’s entry.
Our main destination for the [...]

We have arrived in Kamkura. It’s about 4:30PM. We’ve done a little shopping and sight-seeing. The highlight of the day was taking an hour-long ricksaw ride around town, stopping at a temple nestled in a spectacular bamboo forest. I’ll say more about that later (although that pretty well sums it up for the day); first [...]