Chris
Kinkakuji and Ryoanji
Ah, time to start anew yet again! Today the weather would cooperate quite nicely, I’m glad to say. Which was a good, good thing. First order of business was getting to Kinkakuji. Now, a more seasoned traveller might try and navigate the Kyoto City Bus system in a suitably skillful matter and avoid what we [...]
First Day in Kyoto! Tenryuji, Sagano, and SNOW!
(Continued from Journal 2011: Day 7: Bound for Kyoto) Man, I’m ashamed I left this sit for so long. Aaaanyywaaay. Got up that morning bright and early wanting to take in the sights of the Saga-Arashiyama area. We planned to stick around the immediate area, just to get our bearings and not get ourselves overwhelmed [...]
Bound for Kyoto
(Continued from Journal 2011: Day 6, The Day of Nothing) Our last morning in Tokyo. We decided last night that we’d take an alternate route to find breakfast this morning, so we headed south, underneath the expressway to (wait for it) Denny’s. Yes, that bastion of grand slams, cops n coffee, and truckers back home [...]
The Day of Nothing
(Continued from Journal 2011: Day 5, Sardines, Shibarikyu, and Pokemon!) So. Our last full day in Tokyo. The train situation towards Kamakura/Enoshima is still FUBAR. Can’t get there, can’t get around if we did get there. Getting back is not a constant…. I guess that is right out. CRAP. Not only that, but the non-zero [...]
Sardines, Shibarikyu, and Pokemon!
(Continued from Journal 2011: Day 4, Return to Takaosan) Yeah, the Shonan Shinjuku line to Kamakura and/or Ofuna isn’t running again today. AND the Enoden wasn’t running. Return trip to Enoshima was ruled out for today. There’s always tomorrow, right? It was time to get on the Yamanote line for Hamamatsucho station. I read it [...]
Return to Takaosan
(Continued from Journal 2011: Day 3, The Day After) First thing we did upon waking up on Sunday was to check the Keio rail company’s site for outages. Thankfully, the lines we would need to get to Mt. Takao were running! We’d been to Mt. Takao on our first trip, in the middle of July, [...]
The Day After
(Continued from: Journal 2011: Day 2, Stranded in Tokyo) We slept in the next morning. The jet lag was still affecting us, and combined with the excitement of last night…. it was required. We woke up, and started gathering more information. Trains not running, sights not open. We were reading news reports and watching the [...]
Stranded in Tokyo
(Continued from Journal 2011: Day 2, The Great East Japan Earthquake) We decided at this point we needed to get to the nearest, and largest, station, which from here was Shinbashi. A quick glance at the map near the exit of Hamarikyu Park sort of pointed the way. So we headed out. Along the way [...]
The Great East Japan Earthquake
(Continued from Journal 2011: Day 2, Sumida River Cruise) (First off, this one is pretty long, so apologies in advance. It’s a day none of us will likely forget!) We were in the small clearing just off the docks at Hamarikyu Park, and just to the east of the plum trees. An old tree that [...]
Sumida River Cruise
(Continued from Journal 2011: Day 2, Sensoji Temple) The last time we were here, we’d planned on just jumping on one of the Suijobus river cruise boats out to Odaiba to end the day. What we hadn’t counted on was everyone else having the same idea on a Saturday evening, in addition to the grand [...]
