瑠璃光院 Rurikoin temple

瑠璃光院
Rurikoin temple is famous as a photogenic spot.

But it is opened twice in a year. Spring and Autumn.
That's why it is always packed.
I recommend you to go there early morning.

If you want to go there from Osaka, you should take Keihan line and change trains at Demachiyanagi 出町柳 station. You must take Eizan line and get off at Yasehieizannguchi 八瀬比叡山口 station.

湯田温泉 Onsen - A Good hot spring area in Yamaguchi prefecture

Yuda Onsen湯田温泉 has good hot springs.
It located in Yamaguchi prefecture, western Japan.

Its hot water makes your skin good.

Yuda onsen has great histories.
Heroes of the end of Edo era had meetings there and planed their mission to make Japan great.
One of the heroes, Kaoru Inoue was brought up there.
So there are some places have relations to him.

One of the greatest poet, Chuya Nakahara was gave birth there.
That's why there is a museum about him

If you want to go there, you must keep in mind that you can't use transportation IC cards to get train. It is not usual in Yamaguchi prefecture.

Amazing place Fukuoka

I wanna introduce Fukuoka because I visited there recently.

Fukuoka is the biggest city in Kyushu island.

If you arrived there by plane, you can get to center of the city by train from the airport easily.
It needs about ten minutes!!
I was really excited because Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo are more far from airport.
Osaka: about 1 hour
Nagoya and Tokyo: about 40 minutes
It is amazing!!

[Prices]
I think prices in Fukuoka is not so expensive. The administration fee of museums' contemporary exhibition is worth of paying.
And restaurants and bars that local people using are also not so expensive.
However restaurants for sightseeing are not cheap. For example yatai at Nakasu.

[Public security]
Not bad. But you must be careful about clip joint.

[Dishes]
Fukuoka has many delicious dishes!!
Ramen, Mentaiko(spicy cod roe), Mizutaki and so on.
They are not so expensive. The price of ramen starts from 290 yen.

[Highlight]
There are many historical things.
Fukuoka had been a center of Japan for communicating  with other Asian countries.
So one of museums has the gold stamp which was a symbol of the emperor's power.
That's why some museum introduce relations about ancient Japan with Asia.

There are many good temples and shrines.
Some of representative examples includes Jotenji temple, Sumiyoshi shrine and Kushida shrine.
If you go to Dazaifu, you can visit Dazaifu tenmangu shrine and Komyozenji temple.

Oct.2018