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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By faustina | Views [193] | Scholarship Entry
So famous the Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, the temple of the Fox, the sanctuary of the thousand gates, the Senbon Torii. Foxes are believed to be messengers of the shinto god of rice Inari, other say that the Fox is the god of lies and illusions and ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By aristippos | Views [505] | Scholarship Entry
Kurosawa’s cinema and Mishima’s writings attracted me to Japan since the early 1980’s. Through the years, more and more reasons kept pulling me towards Japan. I became increasingly interested in the theatre form known as Noh. During my years living in ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By majckagreen | Views [195] | Scholarship Entry
Osaka is for many the Japanese party capital, but for me it is the city where I went to my first festival. The night before the event I was holding 16 (bus, train, concert) tickets for two. The Kyoto-Osaka ticket was different from the Osaka-Kyoto one.... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By festival | Views [222] | Scholarship Entry
Osaka is for many the Japanese party capital, but for me it is the city where I went to my first festival. The night before the event I was holding 16 (bus, train, concert) tickets for two. The Kyoto-Osaka ticket was different from the Osaka-Kyoto one.... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By travellikeanna | Views [280] | Scholarship Entry
Japan was not the nonchalant third-world Asia I’d grown to love while living in Thailand. There was efficiency, guardrails and drinkable tap water. And, tour guides with megaphones. The swarms of tourists were tainting my experience and photographs.... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By laura311346 | Views [207] | Scholarship Entry
Stillness in the city I've always been of the opinion that if you are a true 'traveller' weather shouldn't matter when you are exploring new places. This belief was put to the test when I awoke on Easter weekend from my surprisingly comfy tatami mat ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By yeahdah | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
After a long time of picking my best travel experience, I decided on Japan. It was a couple of years ago, my husband came there for work, and as you know, Japanese people work like all the time. So he didn't have even one off-day, and I was travelling ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By levinthhour | Views [200] | Scholarship Entry
Logan and I were late. The slowing blink and relative calm of the dim neon lights were an unmistakable indicator that the robot fight was over. Knowing that moments before this was a chaotic blur of shining chrome and mechanized mayhem filled me with ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By anuradhasarup | Views [382] | Scholarship Entry
Our stay in Tokyo was wonderful. Bright, modern, sparkling Tokyo. However we were in search of the older, traditional Japan. As my sister put it ‘the Japanese Japan’. So we decided to visit Kyoto. Kyoto was the imperial capital of Japan for over a ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By gemmastar | Views [236] | Scholarship Entry
Japan’s trains are methodically choreographed in a rhythmic rail system. In the big cities, busy people join the rhythm. They rush on the train, look down, look out the window, and rush off as new units rush on. As foreigners, my partner, Daniel and ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By charlottesabin | Views [195] | Scholarship Entry
In downtown Tokyo, billboards hang on the skyline like the cardboard backdrop of a puppet booth. It is dusk and the pallid light of another warm afternoon mutes the colours of this neon jungle. It is calm, a far cry from London in rush hour. I search ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By muneerahb | Views [207] | Scholarship Entry
There’s just something about Okinawa... And that is all I can say when I’m asked why I love this place. There’s just SOMETHING about this island. I come from an island too, but they seem to be worlds apart. Spending time in Okinawa is a refreshing change ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By jerichoknopp | Views [127] | Scholarship Entry
I looked through the window of the ramshackle onigiri restaurant, gazing upon endless rice fields tended by old, tanned Japanese farmers in dirty clothing, the sweat evaporating off of their skin as quickly as it appeared. The lack of clouds offered no ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By michaelburton | Views [309] | Scholarship Entry
'"You’ll never just stumble across one,” they said, “It doesn’t work like that.” We never listened, and so we set out on our rented bicycles weaving our way through streets of Kyoto, savoring the unusually muted nature that nightfall had brought. Perhaps ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By laurapigott | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
Mount Koya, just over an hour away from Osaka, is only accessible via cable car. The vast majority of sites are within walking distance of one another, or else can be reached by bus. They remain relatively quiet and uncrowded, even Okunoin cemetery, which ... Read more >
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