Selina's Djournal

My first ever travel to Japan has been an amazing experience. I'm travelling SOLO, I can't speak Japanese fluently, but I still enjoy it! For my first travel, I choose Osaka. Why Osaka? Well, because my friends said that Osaka_and the cities near it_has a lot of historic related sites and fill with Japanese culture as well. Besides Osaka, I went to Nara, Kobe, Kyoto, and Koyasan. Those four city are in Kansai Area but in the different prefecture, and you can reach those city from Osaka around 1 hour, except for Koyasan that need approximately 2.5 hour to reach there. Osaka Osaka itself has a lot of place to visit, there is Osaka Castle, Tsutenkaku Tower, Shinsekai, Dotonburi, Kuromon Ichiba Market, Hozenji Temple, Umeda Sky Building, Temporizan Feris Wheel and there's still plenty of place you can visit. You can choose whether you like to shopping, culinary or only just for sightseeing. Osaka Castle Sinsekai and Tsutenkaku Tower Dotonbori Na...

Kyoto is loaded with cultural heritage sites, that makes Kyoto become Japan's most important cultural tourism destination. One of the popular sites is Kinkaku-ji (The Golden Pavilion Temple), and this place is on my must visit place list in Kyoto. Brief History Kinkaku-ji, officialy named Rokuon-ji Temple is a shariden, a Buddhist hall containing relics of Buddha. Rokuon-ji is a Zen Buddhist temple, in the Shokokuji School of the Rinzai Sect. Kinkaku This area was originally the site of a villa called Kitayama-dai and owned by a statesman, Saionji Kintsune. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the 3rd shigun of the Muromachi period, took a liking to the area and acquired it from the Saionji familu in 1397. He then built his own villa, which he named Kitayama-den. The garden and buildings, centered on the Golden Pavilion were said to represent the Pure Land of Buddha in this world. The villa also functioned as an official guesthouse, welcoming Emperor Gokomatsu (Father of Zen...