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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Japanniversary! Ninjin for the Usachan

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Well, this will be the last of the Japanniversary posts and I thought we'd go out in style. Team Sunshine Fuzzy Bunny style. That is to say, we went to bunny island while we were in Japan!

This post is mostly going to be about TSFB plus actual Bs, so I am just going to shut up and let this happen.

Okay, I'll interrupt here and just say the smaller Japanese islands are really spectacular and peaceful.

Aaaaaaannnnnd back to the more bunnies.

So many bunnies!

Bye bye bunny island! See ya next time Japan!

Japanniversary! Kyoto

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Our last Japanniversary stop was Kyoto and even though we've been to Kyoto before, we saw some amazing new things this time around.

The most important thing was probably that we got more ice cream novelties.

Seriously though, we saw just tons of shrines and temples (it's kind of the thing to do in Kyoto.)

Mostly we were reverent and polite foreigners, but I've got to just 'fess up and say that I totally did this in front of some sake barrels at the Heian Shrine.

We also took a little day trip out to Arashiyama to visit a colony of macaques.

We got to hand feed them.

Oh, and did I mention it was atop a giant mountain that we had to hike? Eddy was pretty happy about the view.

I, on the other hand, feel strongly that hills are terrible.

But Eddy is right. Feeding the monkeys was kind of worth it.

Stay tuned for just one more blog post about Japan!

Japanniversary! Hiroshima

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We've actually traveled to Japan before. One place we hand't been before was Hiroshima and we made it a priority on this last trip. The city is really beautiful.

This is the view from our hotel, by the way! The first order of business was the visit the Peace Memorial. The grounds were so beautiful and each of the memorial structures was moving.

There were all sorts of beautiful paper crane works of art throughout the park.

Trees throughout the city were also marked with these signs indicating they had survived the A-bomb.

It really was such a special place to visit.

One of our favorite things about Hiroshima was a local dish called okonomiyaki.

We probably ate it three times while we were there. We also visited the Hiroshima Castle.

They had two very important things at the castle. 1. Models. Eddy loves models. Like, so much.

2. Samurai outfits.

The other thing we really enjoyed in Hiroshima was the Christmas light display on the main path to the Peace Memorial.

It was a Christmas light wonderland out there. Finally, we visited the very beautiful Miyajima. The island is overrun with semi-domesticated deer and the locals are working hard to help the deer become wild again. There are signs everywhere asking tourists to refrain from petting or feeding the deer.