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1 hour ago, midtown said:

Ok.  I've been to Japan 3x.  Once as a kid.  Once for 3 nights in Tokyo and last summer for 9 days.  Is there nothing to see outside of Seoul? Thats why I was focused more on S. Korea.

I spent a month in Korea and only a day in Seoul. I'm sure Seoul has more I missed (like the DMZ) but the rest of Korea I'm not itching to go back to. Japan, on the other hand, I've been planning a return trip there since the moment I left.

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In Kyoto now. Amazing city which seemingly is being crushed by tourism. And yet every person we come in contact with - from hotel staff to taxi drivers to our sushi chef - is warm, welcoming, curious about where we are from, and eager to speak what English they know. Amazing country, amazing city. 
 

My highlight of the day - the Adashino Nenbutsuji Temple a good 20 min hike north of the (congested) Arashiyama bamboo forest. Created in 811 by a monk to honor those who were buried there long ago, so long that those would remember them are also long gone. The muen-botoke or ‘forgotten souls’. Now more than 8000 statues of the Buddha commissioned by that monk, standing for hundreds of years. Profoundly moving. 
 

Also a bamboo forest all to ourselves. Splendid. 

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