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Back home from Osaka

the cry of "Accitua kudasai" we're back in the magical Tokyo, and we stayed for a considerable number of hours. Luckily the return trip (always at night) was less traumatic, but we had still needed a refill of discrete hours of sleep deprived.

I finally had to see what I expected from Japan, in addition to the endless tangle of tower blocks glass and steel and other weaving of overhead.

Kyoto is beautiful, or at least the part that we decided to visit. Endless roads in the green of the temples, or inlaid between the traditional shops, cross streets bordered by wooden shacks, denoted by the characteristic use to leave their shoes outside the entrance.

This is the neighborhood of Higashiyama, a real gem for those who want to know the more traditional Japan. In our two days here we saw a good number of seats, walking like Bedouins nell'altrettanto hot features that gives this city. In fact you should know that is housed in a valley surrounded by green collinozze, quindi non trapela un filo di vento e fa un caldo becco.

Innanzittutto non fatevi ingannare dalle guide: la stazione e la torre di Kyoto non sono niente di che; va bene, saranno architettonicamente vagamente interessanti, ma possono essere tranquillamente evitate, se non dovete passarci davanti.

Prima tappa della nostra scarpinata è stato il tempio di Sanjusangen-do , interessante soprattutto per la sboronata contenuta all’interno: 1001 statue raffiguranti Kannon dalle 1000 braccia, tutte a grandezza umana. Ovviamente non hanno veramente 1000 braccia, in quanto grazie ad un ingegnoso stratagemma c’è una regola matematica buddhista that "arms 40 equals 1000, because each save 25 worlds." Mathematically it seems to me a bullshit, but so be it.

then climbing up a mountain greenery (through endless merry cemetery) we reached the impressive complex of Kiyomizu-dera . Beautiful above the main building with a large veranda overlooking the mountainside. The intense smoke of the incense pot do the rest.

The first day is then finished with visits to the Yasaka Pagoda (and its five floors of softness) and Chion-in , which houses the biggest bell in the Japan (cool eh!). Evening elegant district of Gion and via the station.

The second day we decided to move with the annoying bus available to the city, given that the lines are 2 meters and were designed at random. We first visited a tacky is missing in most Truzzi suburb of Salerno could have been seen. A shogun can not remember the name (nor do I care) has built a villa surrounded by a beautiful park, then plated with gold. Now it looks like a Ferrero Rocher. This is the osannatissimo Kinkaku-ji , also known as "The Golden Pavilion". If you do not believe you Google.

another bus, another adventure, another temple, it is up to Nijo-jo , a castle so to speak, in truth crock 10 homes in the middle of two walled, surrounded by a giardinaccio ill-treated. Interesting is the main hut, which is characterized by the famous "chirping floors", useful to foil attempts on the lives of the Shogun by ninja noiseless (spaccamaroni really make a sound, just imagine dozens of tourists to tread the same time).

last days of the day was the ' Heian-Jingu, a replica of some imperial castle, but reduced by 1 / 3. For additional information sought a good site. Evening instead of in the beautiful suburb Pontocho .

Even Nara is definitely a place worth seeing, if you recast in Japan. Before fixing the country's capital, winds (also smiling) on the side of yet montagnozza Kansai. Honorable mention to the largest wooden building in the world, the Todai-ji , and the whole body including the Ningatsu -do-do and Sangetsu , especially the aerial view of the city and surrounding hills.

For the rest a couple of 5-storey pagoda and a lot of deer.

the evening we were cheered by a country festival, consisting nell'accendere 50,000 candles and place them in every corner of the remote village. The end result was very exciting.

Last day of stalls and shops in the shopping area of Osaka, a kind of scale in Akihabara.

Today, as mentioned, fat and sleep purchase of CDs at low prices. Tomorrow, who knows.

Images Walkin Tile Showers

Japan closes at 5 pm.

Today we got the trek to all the Himeji peooople , Since we woke up late to take an expensive trip among the thousands of temples and a beautiful Kyoto.

Himeji is a charming town at the foot of some mountains which I do not know the name, I just know that we have shot some scenes of "The Last Samurai." For of course I mean a nice town center with residential buildings of at least 10 floors, the envy of Spinaceto gray, but no huge skyscrapers bizarre sponsored by brands and a decent public transport system. One attraction of the place, apart from the surrounding mountains, is the magic Himeji Castle. It stands atop a fortified hill, so dominate the entire surrounding area (as wars and several skirmishes were common until recently, the Land of the Rising Sun.)

feature that makes this monument unique is that it is the only one not destroyed by earthquakes, battles, rains of roasted chestnuts, but we were quickly reassured by a guide who told us that we plan to have two beautiful and functional ultra-modern lifts, stick to - no one knows where - to the castle (remember the absent-minded that it is a building of the '300 and has been listed as World Heritage Site). After the visit to this fascinating complex we headed toward the place where should have been a bus stop that would take him on the aforementioned mountain, but the fearsome 5 pm looming large, so we had to give up, a prey to various smadonnamenti.

why we went in the adjacent park of the castle of Himeji, the Koko-en , dipping in the filthy river piedacci our sacred Stocapperon poisoning and so all their wonderful and sacred carp.

But it's time to go a bit 'back in time, precisely at the time of the journey that has led to our base, or Osaka. Osaka is pretty bad. Tokyo in a kind of small, but with less light and less monuments. The bus-sized Japanese are Japanese, or XXS. I spent most of the trip (night) to try to find a place for human to sleep, taking elbows on the elbow geek in front of me, having had to stretch my legs up to his place to enter into the seat.

The long sleepless night, however, was rewarded by entry into our great room. The area is central, and we found: TV, refrigerator, air conditioner, VCR, microwave, electric cooker, electric kettle, wireless aggratise and yukata (summer kimono, kimono, but I say if they kill me) clean and folded on the bed. And who c'ammazza?

The main attraction here is the castle of Osaka , of course. This structure has the distinction of being rather than looking outside (if you do not notice pacchianaggine some inlaid gold here and there), but was rebuilt in a random, totally different in style from the rest of the building.

The remaining time we spent in the streets used to shopping (and Dotombori Amerika-Mura ) and a stupid little island which lies between the two rivers running through the city ( Nakano-shima), but I will not dwell here as well.

Yesterday, it was the turn of Kobe, with its random subway stations thanks to the many private lines that rage instead of public transport and a bit battered the Maronites' at all .

the most attractive part of the city is certainly the area of the Akashi-Kaiko bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world (probably not the least interested in, but writing "I saw something longest / largest / fast / light of the world "is cool).

Pleasant also the port area, which includes the Meriken Park and the Kobe Harbour Land , after sunset, with its palaces and its absurd malls bright. Then a walk to Chinatown with dinner Nankinmachi and all at home.

Unfortunately the weather is always very short, so I hope to write again, and - perhaps - in an Italian better next time, maybe that will be directly on my return to Tokyo, when it will pass at least one day with his feet immersed in a vat of water and ice.