#floatingshrine

We did a lot in Kyoto during this trip. We saw the old palaces where emperors lived back when Kyoto was Japan’s capital city. We went to so many shrines and temples and we even climbed up a hill where monkeys ran free

From atop monkey hill 

We also went to the Kyoto manga museum (yes! This was on our schedule to do! Our professor was so nice) 

We also traveled down to Hiroshima and surrounding areas for a rainy day trip. We spent some time at the Hiroshima Peace Museum, which I will post about in a separate post as there are a lot of pictures and words to go along with it. 

So we also went to the Floating Shrine 

Very beautiful

Then we went to Nagoya, which was a last minute addition to our trip b/c we suddenly had a chance to check out the Toyota factory

We got to sit in the cars too which was awesome!