Japan Feb.9 - Feb.15, 2002 [Japan Gallery]

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The Third Day ...

• Sunrise at Lake Biwo-ko (琵琶湖 )
  I just set up my tripod in our room and enjoyed the sunrise indoors. The person with tripod in the photo below was not me :-)

• Hikone (彥根 )
  

  Genkyu-en (玄宮園 ) and Hikone Castle (彥根城 ) are adjacent to each other. Hikone Castle is counted as one of the four most beautiful castles in Japan along with Tsugaru Hirosaki Castle (津輕弘前城) in Aomori (青森縣) , Himeji Castle (姬路城) in Hyogo (兵庫縣) and Matsumoto Castle (松本城) in Nagano (長野縣). When we approached Hikone by bus, the ground was already covered by snow. And by the time we walked up to Hikone Castle from Genkyu-en (it's about 10 min gradual stair climb), it began to snow harder. We were all excited with snow and all the kids enjoyed their first touch of snow in Japan.

• Kaga-Hyakumangoku Jidai Mura (加賀 百萬石時代村 )
  

  We were delayed since we spent more time at Hikone Castle, so we had a snack (soy-sauce noodle) at a rest area on highway before we had a 2PM BBQ lunch at Kaga-Hyakumangoku Jidai Mura (It's a long story to tell what happened during the lunch when Iris was sleeping on the bus and I was staying with her ......). Jidai Mura is a theme park with excellent historical play illustrating the life of the Feudal period. It has several theaters with shows and movies but we missed all of them. It was snowing pretty hard for sometime. We stayed outdoors most of the time and enjoyed playing with the fresh snow.

• Yamanaka Hot Spring (山中溫泉 ) Kajikaso Royal Hotel (河鹿莊皇家飯店 )
  

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