Arriving Osaka airport.
Stamps.
Normal.
Not.
Locals.
Almost.
Kinkaku-ji.
Zen garden.
Real ramen.
Kiyomizu-dera.
Prayers.
Glad we came early.
Neighborhood houses.
NOT the real thing.
How-to for statues.
Variety show at the local farmers’ market.
Contemplating.
Then these guys just cruised by…
THE JACKET.
Kamo River, Kyoto.
Tommy Lee Jones is the BOSS.
Tenryu-ji.
Japanese giant hornet.
Bamboo forest.
Pouring rain.
Bamboo garden.
Entering the Fushimi Inari Shrine complex.
Paper cranes.
Even their maps are beautiful.
Fushimi Inari gates.
Guardian fox.
Priorities.
Hiroshima Castle.
A-Bomb Dome in central Hiroshima.
Red ball shows where “LIttle Boy” exploded over Hiroshima.
Asher learning to fold paper cranes.
Class field trip.
Arriving Koya-san.
Funicular.
Our monastery.
Monk-stay check-in.
Our room.
Even monks’ toilets need an instruction manual.
In the temple.
Downtown Koya-san.
Hide ‘n’ seek.
Quietude of the monastery.
Our dining room.
Kid’s meal.
Leaning stupas in Okunoin.
But only mildly.
No manspreading allowed in Japan either.
First night in our Hakone ryokan.
View through the window screen.
Watching Spongebob in Japanese.
Riverside onsen.
Our beautiful meal at the ryokan in Hakone.
Hakone Open Air Museum.
Huge Picasso collection in the middle of the sculpture park.
World’s most elaborate play structure.
Shinkansen to Toyko.
Tokyo subway map!!
The OTHER Giants!
Inside the Tokyo Dome.
Packed house cheering for Giants.
Different ballpark food.
1-2-3…everyone at once.
Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo.
“Home.”
