Asakusa Kannon Temple

Entering the temple, purifying of hands

Concept cars from Nissan

Concept cars from Nissan 

A group of chanters

Memorial Museum

Mt. Fugi

Typical Japanese dinner

Hakone Open air museum

Miss International beauty contestant - USA

Sylvia - with contestants from USA and Sierra Leone

Candidates offloading

Screen - hand painted

My salad - beautifully displayed

Bullet train to Nagoya

Bullet train to Nagoya

Kenrokuen Gardens

Preparing a tree to winter

Terashima House

Kaikara -  a geisha at 190 year old Tea House

Tea House owner

Garden of tea house, one rock indicates no entry

Interior of tea house

Shirakawa-go outside of Kanazawa - Gassho-zukuri - steeply pitched thatched roofs

Shirkawa - mochitsuki  or rice cake making

Art work produced by the children of Shirkawa

Making washi - thick, fibrous paper  made from mulberry bark

Murkami House

Tea with local family

Kyoto train station

Kiyoomizu

Kinkakui Temple - "leap of faith"

Sanjusangendo Hall

Gardens

Kimono fashhion show at factory

Todaiji Temple

Daibutsu - 52 ft Buddha statue

Kasuga Shinto Shrine - 3,000 stone lanterns.

Fushimi-Inari

Boat ride to Senkoji Temple

View of Senkoji Temle

Bell ringing at temple

Meeting with Buddhist monk and Zen meditation

Kameoka city -  we prepare and eat makizushi (rolled sushi)

Heju-tei - 300 year old home now owned by the Heki family, where a famous samurai once lived

Formal tea ceremony

Kyoto Train station

Model train exhibit

Tower outside train station

Teramachi - world famous market