Kenchoji Temple, Kamakura. Even the construction fencing was pretty!

Kenchoji Temple, Kamakura. These are much less offensive than our orange ones, no?

You have to be from coastal North Carolina to truly appreciate that comment. Leave me a comment if you're interested, but it won't be nearly as funny to y'all as it is to us. :-D

I really did not go visit the other parts of where the vegetables were, but I did catch this shot. I liked the green-ness of these.

This is a HUGE electronics store. I could spend DAYS in here, but my sister was there thankfully and kept me out of trouble. It was hard not to make a purchase at the digital photography floor. I did, however, pick up the brochures for my camera and lenses in Japanese! What a goober I am. :-P

You generally had to look up all the time since most buildings housed multiple stores. The only way you knew about the ones above was to look up and see the signs.

We found this cute little boat at Freshness Burger.

Big difference - Japanese vs. Western!

This is pretty much the only sign that had a funny typo. You'll probably see more typos in my text here than I did in all of Japan.

These convenient little yellow "markers" were there, I devised, for several reasons. One was traffic control - if you kept to the left you were more than likely OK. These yellow markers were also raised so that a sight-impared person could "feel" along and know where they were. See how the bar goes across the way where the steps start? Another guide for the sight-impared. Pretty clever!

These yellow markers were on every street and in every subway/train station.

(text from the program) The art of puppet performing developed in Japan in the 8th century. Since that time, Japan has a long tradition of traveling storytellers and traveling puppeteers. At some point, these two art forms joined. Bunraku is a highly sophisticated form of puppet theatre featuring large puppets, maninpulated by up to three men, narrators or tayu, and shamisen musicians. However, the beginning of what is now called Bunraku was 1684, when Takemoto Gidayu set up his own theatre in Osaka. Indeed, much of the Bunraku repertoire consists of stores about the merchant class, many of which are still popular today. Japan's National Bunraku Theatre is located in Osaka.

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Japanese Site

http://hotel.newhankyu.co.jp/kyoto-e/index.html
English Site

Not too elaborate, reasonably priced, good location across the street from the station. I liked it.

Lots of buttons to play with.

Heated seat. Interesting.

It's for the "water closet". If you need instructions, it's too complicated for me!

I just love these "architecture" features!

Sometimes you get little "beeps" or even music!