We’ve had a wonderful week in gorgeous Kyoto. It’s been cold, especially coming from FNQ, but we’ve thoroughly enjoyed rugging up with long-forgotten winter coats, scarves, gloves and hats – all required in these chilly sub-zero mornings! Sadly, we missed the heavy snow which Tokyo copped this week but perhaps that’s a godsend as getting…
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Temples, Shrines and Pagodas – The Ultimate Torii Gate Experience!
It’s an easy ten or so minute local train ride out of Kyoto station to Inari and a gentle walk up to the Fushimi Inari Shrine, ‘the ultimate Torii gate experience’, famous for its 10,000 vermilion Torii gates that snake up Mount Inari some 233 metres. Ok, so the train out of Kyoto station was…
Osaka – The Manchester Of The East
We’ve escaped the summer heat and humidity of FNQ for the colder winter climes of Japan, Osaka for three days and then, via the Shinkansen, Kyoto for a week. It’s a relatively short haul (7 hours is short from Australia ), a direct flight out of Cairns to Osaka with just one hour time change, so it’s…
Travels With My Ant 