While visitors were stampeding toward the more popular shrines and temples, I had these beauties all to myself!
Thousands of waving cats welcome you to this off-the-beaten-path temple.
One city with two messages: The horrors of nuclear weapons, and a call for global peace.
I love spending time in Tokyo, but there are plenty of other sightseeing goodies just a bullet train ride away.
Thousands of torii gates make this Shinto shrine Kyoto’s biggest, and most beautiful, attraction. I enjoyed my second visit even more than the first!
I go mad for Macaques at the Iwatayama Monkey Park near Kyoto.