Japan - 2016

So, we flew in late. We got to our hotel, and decided we could NOT be bothered going out to find something to eat. The vending machine in the hall had "hot meals in 8 minutes". Basically, after putting the ingredients in the correct spot, you pull the string. A chemical reaction begins inside and cooks your dinner. At one point, I felt like I was holding a bomb and might need to throw it out the window before bringing the building down.

Kimono clad young ladies in the magnificent Bamboo Grove in western Kyoto.

Some of the thousands of torii for the Shinto shrine of Fushimi Inari-Taisha.

Spring for ritualistic washing and cleansing. Fushimi Inari-Taisha.

Under the torii.

Photo taken especially for Ben.

Almost directly under the spot where the world's first atomic bomb was dropped in August 1945. Hiroshima.

The "golden pavilion" of Kinkaku-ji.