Analogue Adventures – Yamanaka to Tokyo to Home – Day 22

All photos taken on June 1, 1985. The media storage space on this blog spot is now at capacity and this will be the last post here, as well as the conclusion of my 1985 Japan posts. If you wish to join me on my new site….please click here. This link will take you back

Analogue Adventures – Yamanaka – Cycling around Yamanaka-ko 1985- Day 21

All photos taken on May 31, 1985. Another stellar morning view from our hotel room. We could see helicopters spinning around in the foreground, with troops rappelling down lines into the trees. It turns out that there were military training grounds nearby. Today, we were going to spend time in and around Yamanaka. We walked

Analogue Adventures – Yamanaka – Mt. Fuji Excursion 1985 – Day 20

All photos taken May 30, 1985. Opening our curtains early the next morning brought an unexpected pleasure. Below us Lake Yamanaka (Yamanaka-ko) shimmered in the hazy morning sunlight, while the top of Mount Fuji gleamed snow white before us. We again walked into town for breakfast and then explored our options to travel up Mount

Analogue Adventures – Nikko to Yamanaka 1985 – Day 19

All photos taken on May 29, 1985. We awoke the next morning, ready for breakfast and all packed for our trip to the Fuji Five Lakes District. Looking out the window, we could see that it was raining lightly. The host of Minshuku Rindo-no-ie eagerly awaited our arrival for breakfast at 7:30 AM. We had

Analogue Adventures – Tokyo to Nikko and around Nikko 1985 – Day 18

All photos taken on May 28, 1985. Arriving at the Tokyo train station early on the morning of May 28, we were directed to our train to Nikko and settled in for the ride. But, looking at the flashing station stop signs in the train car, I began to feel something was not quite right.

Analogue Adventures – Toba to Tokyo 1985 – Day 17

All photos taken on May 27, 1985. We enjoyed the beautiful morning sunrise over Toba Bay from our hotel room, ate our breakfast and went for one last walk, before heading to the Toba train station. The train from Toba to Nagoya was a slow local train. At Nagoya, we changed to a bullet train

Analogue Adventures – Toba & Ise Peninsula 1985 – Day 16

All photos taken on May 26, 1985. After a good night’s sleep in our hotel by the sea, we enjoyed a nice breakfast and then walked the short distance to the Toba Bus Centre to check what bus options were available to see the local sights. We purchased a one day Michikusa Hop-on Hop-off Bus

Analogue Adventures – Kyoto to Toba 1985 – Day 15

All photos taken on May 25, 1985. On May 25, we walked to Kyoto station and from where we set off by train for Toba, the cultured pearl centre of Japan. The trip takes about 34 minutes by bullet train to Nagoya and then another hour and 38 minutes by Kintetsu Limited Express train to

Analogue Adventures – Kyoto 1985 – Day 14

All photos taken on May 24, 1985. We were still not done with our Kyoto visit. There is just so much to see and do here. This was our day to visit the Kyoto Handicraft Centre to find some souvenirs for the folks back home. It was located in a 7 story building crammed full

Analogue Adventures – Kyoto 1985 – Day 13

All photos taken on May 23, 1985. May 23 would be a very busy day for us. We had many stops planned in addition to our evening home visit. Daitoku-ji (大徳寺, the ‘temple of Great Virtue’)[1] is a Buddhist temple, one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. It is located in Kita-ku, Kyoto. The “mountain name” (sangō) by