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m3gtr Grand Master

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Kyoto without doubt is a wicked place to check out and seeing it with some snow would look spectacular its a pretty amazing place. Ninja castle up in the mountains is a good day trip and pretty good fun, I thoroughly reccommend it..

If your after snow accomo in hokkaido, drop me a line as I do alot of booking for crew.

Nijo castle and the trippy nightingale squeaky floors, lol.

knore Grand Master

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I'd be more than happy to help. Drop me a line when youre ready.

I still have every little shred of info i collected while i was there and only just the other day was i going through it toying with the idea of going back in December...

Kyoto is pure magic if youre open to it..yes its touristy in parts but the experiences i had there, while a little exhausting in some ways, were definitely worth the effort and ive never forgotten them.

On to other topics, FA vs LH...its a bit like The Highlander - there can be only one! :(

And we all know where FA ended up, lol.

Yes, with two consecutive world titles :)

Well ive got no issue with being exhausted over there, infact i planned on doing the holiday properly so i get to the point where i actually miss home.

Kyoto interests me most because its more of 'old japan'. And Tokyo is going to make brisbane feel like a rural town in the outback lol

Snowboarding isnt a big issue, ide prefer to theme my snowboarding holiday specifically for that. Ill probably goto Vancouver/Whistler in Canada to snowboard :(

But yeah, ill stop hijacking the thread now..

akeenan Grand Master

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kyoto is great!

its not as good as people hype it up to be though.

After you find out a lot of the places you are looking at have been rebuilt to look like the original structures (read: are totally new and not old / ancient at all) it kind of takes the magic away.

This is the major complaint from non natives living in Japan.

It is a nice place though :D less crowded than tokyo and osaka but less eventfull

Beer Baron Grand Master

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kyoto is great!

its not as good as people hype it up to be though.

After you find out a lot of the places you are looking at have been rebuilt to look like the original structures (read: are totally new and not old / ancient at all) it kind of takes the magic away.

This is the major complaint from non natives living in Japan.

It is a nice place though :D less crowded than tokyo and osaka but less eventfull

pretty good summation. :( I agree with that. I was a bit sad when i read that kinkakuji (golden temple) was re-done in the 80s. and from memory had been rebuilt a few times after the original was burnt down by an angry monk or priest (memory hazy).

Gion was pretty cool at night. eating in a very traditional style restaurant looking out the window at the real geisha complete with entourage making their way to and from appointments along the small cobblestone streets. it was easy to imagine life in kyoto many, many years ago.

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