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Japan 2016: Days 13-23

In the last ten days in Japan I ended up on five different islands: Honshu, Shikoku, Miyajima, Kyushu, and Yakushima. While Yakushima won the natural beauty contest hands down, Shikoku and Miyajima were also beautiful. Unfortunately all we saw of Kyushu was the port of Kagoshima, due to the earthquakes a week earlier, though we did have a run-in with some wildlife there...

( Oboke )
( Hiroshima )
( Miyajima )
( Eagle attack! )
( Yakushima )
( Himeji )
( Pod hotel )

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Japan 2016: Days 8-13

In Kyoto we saw bamboo, a golden pavilion and drank green tea; in Nara we fed many deer and climbed through the Buddha's nostril; and on Mount Koya we stayed with monks and ate monk food.

( Arashiyama, Kyoto )
( Kyoto )
( Nara )
( Mount Koya )

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Japan 2016: Days 5-8

We spent the next few days doing quite a lot of snow-related stuff, while in and around the Japanese Alps. A particular highlight of the holiday was seeing the snow monkeys at the hot springs. We also did the Tateyama Kurobe route through the mountains.

( Yamanouchi )
( Nagano )
( Tateyama Kurobe )
( Toyama )

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Japan 2016: Days 1-5

This is the first of a few posts about my recent trip to Japan with Emily!

We arrived in Japan towards the end of an uncommonly early cherry blossom season, but fortunately we had hedged our bets around the country on where the best would be, so places we thought we'd be early for were in full bloom, while places we thought might be spot on were already dropping their flowers (raining cherry blossom is great). In the first few days we saw temples and a castle, hiked beautiful routes up hillsides, and of course got to eat some excellent sushi.

( Ueno, Tokyo )
( Nikko )
( Kamakura )
( Kawaguchiko )
( Matsumoto )