春休み

Miyajima Revisited

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It's been over a year since my family visited me in Japan but only half a year since I posted about our time in Hiroshima and Miyajima [https://blog.novaugust.net/hiroshima-and-miyajima/].  Since

Hiroshima and Miyajima

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Hiroshima was great. We stayed on the bay, bounced our way across the waves in a boat or two, and had a fancy meal up on the twenty second story of a hotel

Back to Tokyo

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お台場 Jenn finished her two weeks in Japan with one last ride on the bullet train, headed back to Tokyo. We said goodbye to her at our fancy hotel on a man-made island

Toudaiji and Temaki Zushi

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東大寺 An hour on a train put us in Japan's first capital, Nara. It boasts the largest wooden structure in the world, Toudaiji (東大寺Great East Temple), and is also famous for the deer

Kyoto Day 2 - After Inari

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After the shrine [https://blog.novaugust.net/kyoto-fushimi-inari-shrine/], Jenn, Dad and I joined back up with Mom and John to go visit a castle right in the middle of Kyoto, 二条城 (ni-jyou-jyou, 'Second