The long awaited second picture post! I promise I will never get this behind again! I swear I started uploading again like....a month ago and just recaught up. Never again. And I started tagging things in photobucket so that made it take longer too. Most of these I've already explained so I wont give too much explanation here, but I'll tell what each sideshow is about. These are by all means not all the pictures I've taken, they are the highlights. I have over 200 of Kiyomizu at night and Kyoto Imperial Palace alone. I'll try to go from oldest to newest. So lets get going!

This was our trip to the Kaiyukan a long while back, it was really pretty and very fun to see all the fish, and it mostly focused on things from the pacific rim!

This is probably my second visit to the shopping hub in Osaka that is Shinsaibashi, and it is still probably one of my favorite places to go! Lots to see and lots to eat! Osaka is definitely Japan's kitchen!

This is one of about three temples and shrines Leslie and I visited in a day. This is the main gate at Choin and Kodaiji, which had a really beautiful set of gardens.

This is Yakasa shrine, and there was a wedding going on when we showed up there. So we were really lucky to get to see it and take some pictures!

This was my visit to Nikko and Keigon, as well as Adryn's school (sadly no pictures of that it wasn't allowed) and Tokyo. It was really nice to have a weekend with Adryn in her new home!

This was our school festival and it was a blast! Like many things in Japan, especially Osaka, it had a lot to do with eating things. Its so amazing I haven't gotten fat here.

This is Fushimi inari, there were so many stairs, and so many torii gates and man. I just do not even know how people can do this, but it would be great excercise to just up and down all the time, especially since this shrine is free.

Another temple I visited, this time with Elizabeth. This is Tokufukuji. We are going to have seen all the temples and shrines around here I swear.

This the Kyoto Imperial Palace. We were lucky to see it without having to register and sign up in advance. There is one week in the fall and in the spring. Lots of Japanese people haven't even been here!

Kiyomizu at night is one of the most gorgeous places I have ever been too. The leaves are all really pretty this time of year as well. There is a really god reason this is a world heritage site, it is just incredible.

And finally this is my trip to Kinosaki Onsen with Elizabeth, courtesy of her mom who paid for our Ryokan, and thus pretty much everything except for my train fare. This largely features what we ate since I didn't really (couldn't) take pictures of the inside of the baths.

And this is just a slideshow of images that don't really go anywhere else. But they are fun times that we've had here in Japan!