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Eaiting & drinking
Coffee & Tea Cafe Bibliotic Hello!; the coolest coffee shop in Kyoto, this book-themed café serves great coffee drinks and some delicious pastries. It’s a short walk north of downtown. Saraca Nishijin ; we list this here because it’s a cool place – a café built inside an old sento (Japanese public b...
See & Do in Osaka
Sights Dotonbori in Minami neighborhood; a hysteric shopping street with neon lights you have never seen before; at day time, but certainly at night time. Amerikamura ; centre of Japanes youth-culture. The United States in 'small', recognizable from the Statue of Liberty on one of the rooftops, and...
To see & do in Kanazawa
Kazawa-Jo , a 16th century castle restored in 18th/19th century. Imposing fortress of the mighty Maeda clan (Samuria). In closeby neighborhood Nagamachi there are some Samurai-houses (which normally were out of town). You can make beautiful walks in the old merchants district. Higashi district still...
See & do in Matsumoto
Matsumoto castle is one of the five castles designated as 'National treasures of Japan' and the oldest five-tiered six-story castle tower still remaining in Japan. Former Kaichi school is a beautiful school built in 1876; for the people by the people. It was the first community school in the region....
Main things to see & do
Places to visit Arashiyama Bamboo Forest ; there are also temples and wild Monkees to see, and enough places to eat and drink. Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion); beautiful paviljon covered with gold in a pretty park Kiyomizu-dera (Temple of the Pure Water); Buddhist temple from the 17th century with beau...