JAPAN | Thursday, 29 Aug 2019 | Views [322]
JOHN IS PRETTY COMFORTABLE DRIVING ON THE LEFT as they do here in Japan. He has had enough practice, after all — nearly a year in Australia and New Zealand, half a year in South Africa, several trips to the UK and even six months in Uganda ... Read more >
JAPAN | Tuesday, 27 Aug 2019 | Views [666]
IT WASN’T EASY TO LEAVE NIKKO. EVEN THE Frank Lloyd Wright designed station seemed to tug at our sleeves. But the shinkansen was coming faster than a speeding bullet and we didn’t want to miss the train.
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JAPAN | Tuesday, 27 Aug 2019 | Photo Gallery
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JAPAN | Sunday, 25 Aug 2019 | Views [298]
CONNIE DID INDEED SAVE THE BEST FOR THE LAST. The Tōshō-gū Buddhist Temple is the cherry on the sundae that is Nikko. The restoration for the 400 th anniversary of Tōshō-gū won’t be completed until 2024, but it’s easy to forgive ... Read more >
JAPAN | Saturday, 24 Aug 2019 | Views [236]
NIKKO COULD JUST BE THE JERUSALEM OF JAPAN. Both cities have UNESCO World Heritage status and each has three important religious sites. It’s probably a poor analogy — there is no strife in Nikko — Buddhist and Shinto practitioners ... Read more >
JAPAN | Friday, 23 Aug 2019 | Views [374]
IT ISN’T OFTEN THAT THE FIRST PLACE YOU VISIT in a new town is a cemetery. And not a famous one like Arlington National Cemetery or Normandy, either. We had to work with a map and the lady at Nikko’s Tourist Information Center ... Read more >
JAPAN | Friday, 23 Aug 2019 | Photo Gallery
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JAPAN | Thursday, 22 Aug 2019 | Views [253]
WE HAD THE DEVIL OF A TIME GETTING FROM Takayama to Nikko, a route that ended up requiring a bus —two depending on how you count — and five different trains. We were in the second car of a two car train heading to Toyama with four ... Read more >
JAPAN | Wednesday, 21 Aug 2019 | Views [155]
WELL, HERE WE ARE AT OUR NEW HOME, journals.worldnomads.com/graynomadsusa If you have just discovered us, you can get our backstory (don't you just love that word?) at journals.worldnomads.com/vagabonds3 (2015-2019) , journals.worldnomads.... Read more >
