Category Archives: 2015 Japan Summer

June 19, Friday We visited Osaka Castle today. Adam:  I was particularly interested to see this building – it played a prominent role in Clavell’s Shogun series of books – a couple of which I had re-read this past year … Continue reading →

June 16, Tuesday Today we headed for Osaka.  It was a bit of a weird journey, for a couple of different reasons. The first reason is that we were under the impression the bullet train ride from Kyoto to Osaka … Continue reading →

June 13, Saturday We took the train to the town of Nara this morning.  Nara was the capital of Japan from 710 to 794, and has eight temples, shrines and ruins that, together with Kasugayama Primeval Forest, collectively form “Historic Monuments … Continue reading →

June 10, Wednesday We made it to Kyoto! We didn’t do anything but travel today. We took the bullet train and it was actually pretty cool. It goes about 170 miles per hour and is a lot like riding on … Continue reading →

The flight from Atlanta to Japan is 14 hours. From one standpoint, this flight went as smoothly as possible. The TSA people in Atlanta’s International Terminal were all in good moods, we sailed through all the security points with yellow … Continue reading →