Koyasan, Japan

KOYASAN & HIROSHIMA PHOTO GALLERY

My favorite stop of all in Japan was the beautiful mountaintop town of Koyasan. We attended morning prayers with Buddhist monks, slept in a capsule hotel and visited our first onsen. Then we caught the bullet...
Visiting Fushimi Inari Shrine in historic Kyoto, Japan.

KYOTO PHOTO GALLERY

Kyoto was incredible! We enjoyed the great company of fellow tourists and explored some of Japan's most stunning historic sites. However, the best highlight of all might have been the find of an amazing little...
Tourists explore old town Takayama.

TAKAYAMA PHOTO GALLERY

After the rush of Tokyo, our next stop in Japan was the historic mountain town of Takayama. After exploring Higashiyama-teramachi, we took a tour to Shirakawa-go, a historic rural community in a deep valley...
Back at Sensoji, a Buddhist temple built in the 7th century in Asakusa, Tokyo.

TOKYO PHOTO GALLERY

Our first stop in our round-the-world trip was one of the most incredible cities in the world: Tokyo, Japan! Over the course of three days, we barely had time to recover from the jet lag as we celebrated our...