We just got back from 3 weeks in Japan and China! In Japan, we visited Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, and a Mount Koya. Highlights included: Ryoanji Rock garden, Okunoin Cemetery, Toda-ji Temple (with those hungry deers!), and the Tokyo National Museum. In China, we spent 8 days in Beijing and a day at the Great Wall of China! Highlights included: The Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, Chairman's Mao's mausoleum, the National Art Museum of Beijing, and taking the toboggan down from the Great Wall of China! Before we went, we watched a lot of Ozu and Kurosawa movies, as well as reading a lot about Shintoism, Buddhism, and Zen.
