Day: 19 March 2009
Japanese Toilets
I’ve commented on a previous trip about the wonders of Japenese toilets. I think that their toilet technology is another sign of their fastidiousness about hygeine. (I don’t think they we have been to one station yet that isn’t clean enough to eat your lunch off the platform. In Matsumoto, we noticed that the cleaners […]
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Miyajima Floating Tori
You can always tell when you are near a Shrine in Japan as the entrance is marked with a Tori (gate). The island of Miyajima (literally, Temple Island) is famous for it’s floating Tori which marks the entrance from the sea to the Itsukishima Shrine. The present Tori was built in 1875 and is the […]
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Hiroshima A-Bomb Memorial
One of the more sobering and thought provoking of places is the Peace Park at Hiroshima. Siuated right on ‘Ground Zero’ it has this shrine to those who died and suffered terrific burns and ongoing radiation sickness. The nearby museum has many mementos such as a human shadow from a person sitting on some stone […]
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Train Photo
This is a photo of a ‘Nozomi’ super fast express train arriving at Okoyama station. They arrive into the station very quickly, making it hard to judge just when to take a photo. Our JR Rail Pass doesn’t include the Nozomi, so we travel on the slower Hikata Train that also stops at more stations. […]
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