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Temple Run Buddha’s Bidding – Kyoto and Nara

Temple Run Buddha’s Bidding – Kyoto and Nara

  Out now, the new real-life version of Temple Run. Your mission: see as many temples, shrines, gardens and groves as possible in Kyoto and Nara. We gave it a try. Here’s what we found:   Level one: The Southern Higashiyama Walk First challenge: Wandering around crowded Kiyomizu-dera. We won a bonus and got a free tour by three Japanese girls, students from Osaka who want to practice their English by guiding foreign tourists. We mastered the walk through pitch black Tainai-me-guri, and…

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Nagoya and Nakasendo

Nagoya and Nakasendo

  After not being very lucky with Mount Fuji we were a bit worried about our plans to visit the Japan Alps. We based ourselves in Nagoya, which is a perfect gateway for that region, just a 90 minutes train ride and you’ve travelled from a top-notch 21st century modern metropolis to a marvellous mountain scenery where time seems to have stopped 200 years ago.

Tokyo

Tokyo

  Tokyo is big, it’s very big… The two days that we had to explore were nowhere near enough to see all that the city has to offer. But we did get a good idea. Tokyo is a vibrant, lively, loud, fun city. And crowded. We arrived on a Friday night, during rush hour and had to take the metro – with our big backpacks and luggage, that’s definitely an experience. Though something to avoid in the future, if we…

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