Japan Day 10

 Day 10 of #rjapantravelog.

@dianamelina invited us to Yokohama. The suburban town has this beautiful public park with gorgeous colorful flowers.

Beautiful flowers are beautiful, even when the sun is not shining.

The Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse is a historical building that is used as a complex that includes a shopping mall, banquet hall, and event venues.

In the afternoon, we went to see view Tokyo Tower from afar. Tokyo Tower is a communications and observation tower, the second-tallest structure in Japan.

The structure is an Eiffel Tower-inspired lattice tower that is painted white and international orange to comply with air safety regulations.

Every 5 years the tower is repainted in a process that takes about 12 months.

After seeing this tower, we went to Fujiko F. Fujio museum. 

Japan Day 9

 Day 9 of #rjapantravelog. 

We rented a house in Tokyo via AirBnB. I think it's very spacious, with a living room, 2 bed rooms (typical of what I usually see in anime! :p), 1 small toilet, a bath room, and a dining room/kitchen. Thankful that we stayed in a house instead of in a hotel, so we could feel "the real life" of Japanese citizen.

On that day, I was pretty sick, so practically I went nowhere. My condition in the past few days of the trip was a disaster, and I got hospitalized right after coming back to Indonesia. .

Japan Day 8

Day 8 of #rjapantravelog.

When taking picture of rotating globe, I always try to get a snapshot of this side of the earth.

Mount Prometheus- giant volcano that is the park's centerpiece and most prominent feature.

I think it's a unique feature of this theme park, since the structure is noticeably huge.

namina naon ya?

King Triton and his dolphins at Mermaid Lagoon - a home to the characters of The Little Mermaid.

Japan Day 7

 Day 7 of #rjapantravelog.

We went to Toyota Automotive Museum in Nagoya. We initially wanted to go to Hitachi Seaside Park but the weather didn't permit.

Apparently a similar museum is also located in USA. However, the museum in Nagoya also features many cars from other manufacturers such as Alfa Romeo and DeLorean Motor Company (and Bemo!), as well as artwork. .
I like seeing cars, but I guess cars enthusiast would appreciate this museum much more than me. For a regular visitor like me, I prefer Museum Angkut @ Batu :p

Let's fast forward this #rjapantravelog to the next day.

Okay, this photo already says it. Our next destination is: .....

Japan Day 6

 Day 6 of #rjapantravelog

we went to 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (which photo I posted few days ago) and Kanazawa Castle.

The castle's distinctive, whitish roof tiles are made of lead. The reason for that is not only that they are fireproof, but legend says that also that in times of siege, the tiles could be melted down and cast into bullets. /wiki

Japan Day 5

Day 5 of #rjapantravelog.

From Osaka (yes Osaka, not Kobe), we went 300 kms north to Kanazawa. Unfortunately, the sky was still gloomy.

Bridge in front of Kanazawa Temple.

Now I remember the main reason why we went to Kanazawa was to try the brand new route of Shinkansen #soimportant. Our friend @dianamelina suggested that we should try it :p

Thankfully, wiki said in Kanazawa,
there's a park named Kenroku-en, which is one of the three great gardens in Japan. At least there was an object to visit xD.

Kenroku-en (兼六園, Six Attributes Garden), located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, is an old private garden.

The garden is located outside the gates of Kanazawa Castle where it originally formed the outer garden, and covers 114,436.65 m² /wiki

Crossing the bridge

This is the shooting place of "Assalamu'alaikum Kanazawa". However, a tech glitch made all the photos were wiped out. Cc: @awl88 @vickynugraha @putripl .

Statue of Yamato Takeru -originally Prince Ōsu-, was a Japanese legendary prince of the Yamato dynasty, son of Emperor Keikō, who is traditionally counted as the 12th Emperor of Japan.

Kotoji-tōrō, a stone lantern with two legs, said to resemble the bridge on a koto. This lantern is emblematic of Kenrokuen and Kanazawa.

Koto (Japanese: 箏) is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument. Mirip alat musik kecapi tampaknya

My IG #1500

Apparently, the name of the bridge is: hanami-bashi aka flower-viewing bridge. That time, the name really represents the situation.

Castle above sakura

Japan Day 3 - Part 2

Back to Day-3 of #rjapantravelog. The weather was so nice that day.

Kiyomizudera (清水寺, literally "Pure Water Temple") is one of the most celebrated temples of Japan. It was founded in 780 on the site of the Otowa Waterfall in the wooded hills east of Kyoto, and derives its name from the fall's pure waters. \wiki

The temple’s colorful bell tower was constructed in 1596. If you look closer, you can see beautiful chrysanthemum flowers carved above the fly brace of the tower. .
The bell tower was restored in 1999, when the beautiful vermillion color was enhanced.

Though in the past these sorts of bells were used to direct the monks during the day, now it’s most famously rung on New Year’s Eve, when the bell is rung 108 times to symbolize the 108 earthly desires Buddhism acknowledges must be overcome.

Kiyomizudera was named for the pure water that flows from the Otowa no Taki waterfall, with kiyomizu from the temple's name translating to “pure water”.

It is said that this water possesses the power to extend one’s life and fulfill one’s wishes, and you can take a long-handled ladle and drink from one of the channels yourself.|wiki

Ginkakuji (Silver Pavilion) is a Zen temple along Kyoto's eastern mountains (Higashiyama). In 1482, shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa built his retirement villa on the grounds of today's temple, modeling it after Kinkakuji (Golden Pavilion), his grandfather's retirement villa at the base of Kyoto's northern mountains (Kitayama).

Despite its name, the Silver Pavilion was never covered in silver. Instead, it is believed that the name arose as a nickname more than a century after the building's construction to contrast it with the Golden Pavilion.

Alternatively, it is explained that moon light reflecting on the building's dark exterior (which used to be covered in black lacquer in the past) gave it a silvery appearance.

A meticulously maintained dry sand garden, known as the "Sea of Silver Sand" (Ginshadan). In the edge the garden, there's a massive sand cone named "Moon Viewing Platform"

Tossing coins for good luck! I'm wondering whether the officers collect the coins from the pond in regular basis.

Silk-like moss garden

Among the trees

In my opinion, this place is very enchanting even it's uber crowded at that time.

Philosopher's Walk - A cherry tree lined canal that stretches from Nanzenji to Ginkakuji.

The route is so-named because the influential 20th-century Japanese philosopher and Kyoto University professor Nishida Kitaro is thought to have used it for daily meditation. |wiki

Kinkakuji (金閣寺, Golden Pavilion) is a Zen temple in northern Kyoto whose top two floors are completely covered in gold leaf.

Formally known as Rokuonji, the temple was the retirement villa of the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. /wiki.