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Tag: Osaka

  • Hong Kong

    So, while I was in Korea, I decided to check on flights from Seoul. My credit card points got me down here [Thailand], so a free flight. I flew on Cathay Pacific.  The airline was good, the food was decent, and I liked that there was no boarding in sections, I just lined up in…

  • Seoul

    After Busan, I took an express train into Seoul. It was a good ride, only a few hours, and then I had to figure out the subway lines in Seoul to get to my hotel. I found a DMZ tour and woke up insanely early to get an hour subway ride to the pickup point.

  • Gamcheon

    We left the port area and went to Gamcheon, a colorful neighborhood built during the Korean War by refugees. It is now a culturally significant area and a major tourist attraction because of the beauty and historical value.

  • More Busan

    After the temple, we went to Blue Sand Beach, previously blue snake beach. We went out onto an observatory over the water where they would dive for seafood. I had a spicy seafood ramen with a couple of dentists from Singapore. We then moved to MI Po, another Port to pick up people who took…

  • Hypocenter

    On my last day in Nagasaki,  I left the temple with the turtle and Kannon and started walking to Peace Park. On my way, I saw a broken gate and two trees that survived the atomic blast. These were remnants of the atomic blast. Two trees that were originally thought to be dead but grew…

  • Walking in footsteps of the distant past

    Late summer 1945, an 18 year old Marine, just out of Paris Island, boards a ship in the Pacific Ocean and heads west towards the Pacific theater, where our forces were battling the Japanese military.  Sometime after August 9th, he lands in Nagasaki and is part of the peacekeeping/occupation force. When he landed, he was…

  • Final stamp

    I took the trains down to Osaka and stayed here for 2 days. This morning, I woke up and took 2.5 hours worth of trains and buses to visit To-ji in Kyoto. Another temple associated with Kūkai. Kobo Daishi)  It was a beautiful day for walking around and seeing the complex.

  • Eternal resting

    The other day, I woke up early and walked in the rain to the mausoleum of Kūkai at 530am.  He is believed to be still with us in eternal meditation. The morning prayer was about an hour, and I wish I could have taken pictures. It was dark, lit by candles and orange paper lanterns.…

  • More pictures

    This town is full of Temples and a large graveyard

  • More pictures – Main Temple