The Planned Route
Maryrose, Theodore, and The Author will rendezvous in Los Angeles
on Sunday May 21st before
our embarkation on this trans-Pacific venture – Maryrose coming from a wedding
and Theodore and me taking a break from our internship.
Our flight leaves the next day at 11:50 am on board a possibly
Charlestonian Boeing 787-9. We will be robbed of a day as we arrive in Narita at
3:20 pm local time on the 23rd.
After a day of recuperation and sightseeing we will set out on the
24th for Kanazawa, on
the first of many train rides, where we will spend two nights and see the famous
gardens of Kenroku-en.
From there we will travel down the coast and inland past Lake Biwa
to Kyoto where three nights will be spent no doubt in either composition or contemplation
of fine poetry and the tea ceremony. There we will see the famous bamboo groves
at Arashiyama and take a day trip to Osaka where we hope to see the notable
aquarium and castle.
Marking our farthest progression west on the island, we will
depart for Hiroshima on the 29th where
we will spend two nights, seeing the Peace Memorial and venturing south to Kure
to visit the Yamato museum, a singular juxtaposition.
We will begin retracing our steps on the 31st when we leave Hiroshima, but will
diverge by cutting across the Kii Peninsula at Osaka and following the coast
south on our way to the well-known city of Hamamatsu where our tentative plans
have us visiting the zoo there.
On June 2nd we
will depart for our final destination of Kamakura (near Tokyo) where we will
spend our three final nights in Japan. There we plan to see the giant Buddha at
Kotoku-in and see the Battleship Mikasa at Yokosuka.
We fly out of Narita on June 5th at 5:05 pm and defy the temporal gods
by arriving at 11:15 am on the same day in Los Angeles.
-Nathaniel
Oh, most honorable intrepid travelers - safe journey and much enlightenment!
ReplyDeleteMight I also add that this is a very fine blog, what with the atmospheric fonts, background picture, and stirring music!!!! I am looking forward to enjoying Japan vicariously, but only if postings will not detract from your trip experience. In other words, don't plan your trip around the blog, the way some people plan their weddings around the photo ops. Oh, and Rosalie told me that the museum at Hiroshima was very uplifting, strangely enough, so don't miss it. Love, Mom
ReplyDeleteI probably shouldn't tell you this, but we aren't actually going to Japan; we are just going to find pictures on Google and photoshop ourselves into them for the blog.
ReplyDeleteI knew it!!!
DeleteBon voyage adventurers ! Chantal
ReplyDeleteHey Maryrose! So glad to be a part of your adventure! Have a blast! Peace, Ann T.
ReplyDeleteThanks! We need to catch up sometime this summer- it's been too long!
DeleteMary says, dear author, author, and photographer, Aunt Mary, who cannot figure out how to set up a Google profile, is really enjoying your blog, your erudition, adaptation, and is most impressed. I hope she will figure out how to leave her own comments, but she says it aint gonna happen in her lifetime.
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