Christopher reminded me today that I never put up pictures from our Spring Break trip to Japan earlier this year. So sorry! So here's some more catching up the blog.Most of you probably know that we have a tradition in our family, of each of our children getting a one-on-one trip to Japan with Dad after they turn 16 years old. I took Justin two years ago (will get around to posting those photos, too), and during Spring Break of 2007, I took Christopher.
It was actually Christopher's second trip to Japan. He had gone there a year-and-a-half earlier on a Irvine-Tsukuba Sister Cities exchange program. Tsukuba is just outside of Tokyo and Christopher had already experienced much of Tokyo, so we spent only a little bit of time there, and traveled pretty extensively from Tokyo, south all the way to Nagasaki. Here is roughly where we visited:
- Nagoya: Nagoya Castle, my old Toyota City branch of the LDS Church, and some friends there.
- Kanazawa: Kenroku-en Park (one of the most beautiful places in Japan, I think).
- Nara: Todaiji, Kasuga Taisha, Nara Park, and Byodoin.
- Kyoto: Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion), Kiyomizu-dera, Nijo Castle, Ryoan-ji, and Toji (tallest pagoda in Asia).
- Hiroshima: Peace Park including Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima Castle, and Miyajima Island. And also happened to discover completely by accident probably the best Italian restaurant I've ever been to - a little hole-in-the-wall place we actually went to twice!
- Fukuoka: Used this northernmost major city of Kyushu as a springboard to visit Nagasaki, and the Peace Memorial there, too.
- Tokyo: Tokyo Disneyland, Harajuku (Takeshita Street), and visiting Yosuke's family (Yosuke was a home stay student with my family when we lived in Whitter, CA and I was 16 years old!).
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