Japan 🇯🇵
Collection of ideas for my next trip to Japan.
# Pourquoi aller au Japon?
- j’adore les animés et mangas — j’en regarde depuis 15 ans !
- ca m’amuse d’apprendre le Japonais
- couteaux japonais
- stylos plumes japonais
- culture onsen, temples
- paysages: forets de bamboo, vieilles villes, Tokyo néons multi-étages (comme Séoul),
- bouffe : sushi, seafood, saké, yakisoba
# Resources
Self-guided tours:
- pilgrimage
# Souvenirs à acheter
baguettes de cuisine longue
petits bols mignons
# Trucs funs à faire
Tea ceremony?
Kimono?
# Edo
The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), 1603-1867 marked an era under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, characterized by economic growth, strict social order, isolationist foreign policies, “no more wars”, and popular enjoyment of arts and culture. Edo is now Tokyo.
During the Edo period, post towns, shukuba (宿場), were built and used throughout Japan by travellers to rest on their journey to other significant cities throughout the country.
5 Edo-Period Old Towns:
1. Narai-juku (Nagano)
2. Tsumago-juku (Nagano)
3. Magome-juku (Gifu)
4. Samegai-juku (Shiga)
5. Kusatsu-juku (Shiga)
https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1SgtbZzphDIZQa97crFBuAWPzQrGWzaIW&hl=en
# Trails
## Along the way: Mount Koya
This morning, we will wake up early and take part in a morning Buddhist ceremony that is open to residents of the Temple in the richly decorated prayer hall. You’ll find that the prayers and chanting are hypnotic and the ambience is spiritual. After the ceremony, you will be able to walk around the prayer hall and see funeral tablets as well as several Buddhist artefacts, usually not accessible to the public. This is a rare opportunity to glimpse the most sacred precincts of a Buddhist Temple. After the morning service, we will try and experience a “Goma” fire service, a traditional ceremony that is unique to Koya-san monasteries.
https://www.jacadatravel.com/asia/trips/luxury-autumn-leaves-tour-of-japan/
## Along the way from Osaka to Tanabe: Okunoin cemetery
# Mt. Fuji
Find trail around — climbing it doesn’t seem so fun: too many people, it’s only rocks, it’s not high.
Let’s not repeat Cotopaxi…
# Yudanaka Onsen
# Takayama
