Really Wandering

The past week has been kind of ridiculous with regards to travel, here's the overview:
Fri, Oct 14: Straight from school to Maiko station to Sannomiya to Osaka Itami airport
Sat, Oct 15: Gakuentoshi -> Maiko station -> Shirahama (fail because the Nada Fighting festival got rescheduled to a different day) -> Himeji -> Itayado -> Gakuentoshi
Sun, Oct 16: Gak -> Sannomiya -> Arima -> a round on the Kobe Port Liner -> Harborland
Mon, Oct 17: Gak -> Kyoto (I won't even go into the travel fails on my part from this day)
Tues, Oct 18: All over Kyoto with mom, boyfriend, and his parents :) and then back to Gak
Wed, Oct 19: Gak -> Sannomiya -> Shin-Kobe -> Hiroshima to see castle and Peace Park
Thurs, Oct 20: Hiroshima -> Miyajima island -> back to Gak
Fri, Oct 21: an anomaly! just to school and back

and today? maybe Osaka?

Here's a pic from each day!


Himeji Castle (with main tower under construction)

Another Kobe skyline pic (this time from Harborland)


 
Some of the many tori gates in Kyoto

 In front of the "Silver Pavillion" (not actually covered in silver)


 
Hiroshima castle (rebuilt in 1958 after the original one was destroyed by the atomic bomb)

 A view through the centograph (which I still am not sure what that means...) with the A-bomb Dome in the background (the A-bomb Dome was the Hiroshima prefectural office that was partially destroyed by the atomic bomb, so they kept it as a memorial.

The famous "floating" tori gate at Miyajima Island

More to come for sure!

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