Temples, manga and ramen. Part I

I'm just realizing now how it will be difficult to summarize the trip in Japan.

We moved so much and in such a way that it's hard to remember all the cities, villages and temples we visited. It's much harder to remember the people's faces we met and we liked a lot.

Japan is an amazing place, full of traditions and modernities, people stuck into their job, people sleeping in the tube, people praying in front of a temple, people eating something good in an ancient festival.

I think I loved Japan and I love it now as well.

I couldn't ever forget how good I felt walking in a park, admiring the "hanami", watching at the carps swimming quietly in a little lake. There was such a peace in the temples, both Shinto and Buddhist. I extremely liked walking amongst little temples, burning incense and monks. I simply felt good with my life and my own person.

I don't know if I will ever be able to express my feelings while traveling in Japan. By the way, I took (and usually take) pictures also for this fear: to not be bale to tell the story, the travel and the sensations.

I hope that my pictures could let you know (whoever you are) how I felt and how much I love this place.

I know there are a lot of pictures, perhaps they are too much, but I need to show everything!

Tokyo, the first sight, Ueno Park and the walk at 4am (because we couldn't enter to the tuna action at 5am):

Miyajima and the unexpected matsuri: early in the morning it seems to walk in the Miyazaki's "Sent to Chihiro" movie. The Buddhist temple of Daisho-in is one of the most beautiful and solemn temples I've ever seen.

Matsuyama, its famous Dogo Onsen, the onsen Miyazaki's "Sent to Chihiro" has been inspired to, and the Matsuyama-jo, an amazing castle amongst the cherry blossom.