Tag: Japan

• Miyajima Island- The Deer Outpost

  

  (as it appeared in Tripatini.com) The spritely deer, nosing their way around on Miyajima Island 10 miles from Hiroshima in the Seto Inland Sea and a sacred Shinto and Buddhist site, are the closest parallel between this verdant Island and Sarnath, near Varanasi in the hot, dusty River Ganges plains of North India. It was in […]

  Travtrails

  December 16, 2016

  Accidental Expat

  Buddhism, Daishon Temple, Five Storied Pagoda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Hokoku, India, Itsukushima, Japan, Machiya Street, Marodo Shrine, Miyajima Hiroshima, Momiji-dani Park, Mt. Risen, NOH stage, O torii, Ometesando, Sarnath, Senjokaku, Shinto Shrine, Soribashi, THE HEIKE STORY by EIJI YOSHIKAWA, Varanasi

• Kinkaku-ji Temple (The Golden Pavilion) Kyoto

  Kinkaku-ji Temple, “The Golden Pavilion”, breathtaking in its golden glory. Excerpt from my article Kyoto Japan – the Iconic Lady (All Ways Traveller)   www.allwaystraveller.com/online ‘ Another luminous example of antiquity is the Golden Pavilion or Kinkauji from the period when there were no cameras to capture its golden glory reflected in the still waters of […]

  Travtrails

  January 9, 2014

  Accidental Expat

  Japan, Kinkaku-ji Temple, Kyoto, Yellow

• Ryokens, Onsens, Kuro-Tamagos…and a long life in Japan http://www.womentravelblog.com/

  Ryokans, Onsens, Kuro-Tamagos…. and a long life in Japan http://www.womentravelblog.com Indra Chopra writes a guest blog about her introduction to the Japanese style of bathing. Originally from India, she is now based in Hong Kong with her husband. Indra’s own travel blog – Trails is about journeys, the constant and unexpected, of encounters with the […]

  Travtrails

  March 18, 2012

  Accidental Expat

  Asia, Health, Hong Kong, Japan