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Having visited last year, the scenery around Toshogu Shrine in Nikko isn't all that different, if you manage to visit like we did first thing in the morning as
by decimalenough 2y ago
Having visited last year, the scenery around Toshogu Shrine in Nikko isn't all that different, if you manage to visit like we did first thing in the morning as soon as they open and before the tour buses rock up. (The shrine is surrounded by acres of sacred forest where construction is prohibited.)
The cities like Kobe and Nagasaki, on the other hand, are completely unrecognizable.
- RataNova 2y agoNikko really does feel like stepping back in time if you catch it early enough
- ekianjo 2y ago> The cities like Kobe and Nagasaki, on the other hand, are completely unrecognizable. getting utterly destroyed by fire bombing (or atomic bombs in the case of Nagasaki) does that to cities.
- decimalenough 2y agoKyoto was never bombed, but outside a very few carefully curated touristy bits, it's still an ugly AF concrete jungle that looks nothing like these pictures.
- dudeinjapan 2y ago[dead]
- ekianjo 2y agoNot the central part of Kyoto. You can walk in areas like Gion that have mostly remained the same for centuries. Of course as cities get bigger you get concrete. just like other cities Kyoto has grown in the 20th century and at some point you need concrete instead of wood
- decimalenough 2y agoGion and Sannenzaka are the very definition of touristy Kyoto.
- ekianjo 2y agoThey are touristy because they are authentic in the first place.