Oh how I miss Japan, but I def don’t miss the prices!! Here at Kyoto open air market, strawberries were 120 dollaaas!!
Lanterns are beautiful
This tangerine decor represents the new year and brings good luck and prosperity
foolin’ around in front of the pagoda
For new years eve, we had a geisha (no not an actual geisha as portrayed in hollywood) serve us a traditional new year’s meal
In the evening on new years eve, the Japanese go to Temples to catch a rope on the bonfire, and bring that fire on the rope back to their homes to start their own fire.
temple at night
Arrows prevent calamity in the new year
Everything is so perfect and precise in Japan. Even the berries in the Gold Pavilion Garden were perfectly ripe!
Teddy Bears waitin’ at the bus stop
biggest teddy bear of MA life
beautiful and peaceful shop in kyoto
Shrines dedicated to shintoism
so many cute thingies in Japan!
Tanuki: half raccoon half bear that brings good luck for the new year. Yep, it took me foreevvvaaa to figure that one out!
praying
so cute!
More Tanuki’s!
Beautiful hidden shrine in the hills, one of the highlights of the trip
Shrine next to waterfall
little cookie offered to the Japanese gods/ancestors!
Geisha district of Kyoto
Staying at the Ryoko Inn, Shiho was our geisha/attendant, she was so sweet!
in full attire
mmm dinna.
daddy passed out at tha dinna table, hmm a lil’ too much sake . . .
Exactly where the atomic bomb hit Nagasaki
Peace Cranes
Goodbye beautiful Japan.
