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Our first stay in a traditional Japanese inn, a Ryokan. The rooms are called Washitsu (和室).
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Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺) or "Golden Pavilion Temple" is the informal name of Rokuon-ji (鹿苑寺) or "Deer Garden Temple" in Kyoto, Japan. It was originally built in 1397 to serve as a retirement villa for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, as part of his estate then known a
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the world's largest statue of the Buddha Vairocana, known in Japanese simply as Daibutsu (大仏)
