Yegenaga Travel & Tours Guide

Nothing wrong if Nara likened “one breath” with Kyoto. In terms of history, both cities closely linked. Nara was Japan’s first capital before it moved to Kyoto for nearly 1000 years. Both were only 42 kilometers distance adrift.

Incidentally, the last Friday of March was a “Shunbun-no hi” (vernal equinox day), the day where the sun crossed the equator, so long as the length of day and night. For Japanese people it is time for  and visit family graves. It is not surprising since this morning intercity train station in Tokyo was packed with people who will pass a long weekend out of town. Everyone rushed to drag her suitcase.

Trip to Kyoto by Shinkansen train quickly cleared for three hours. City Shinagawa, Mishama, Hamamatsu, Yokohama, Nagoya, passed quickly. Arriving in Kyoto, a trip to Nara was followed by regular train. The atmosphere at Kyoto Station is much more calm. A seat on the train were not all filled.

From behind the window, range of scenery flashed alternately. From the meadow, turned into a row of small houses, changed back to agricultural fields that  regularly. Colorful flowers begin to burst in the corners of the yard. Spring is arriving soon ….

Nara is the entrance to the spread of Buddhism to Japan in the sixth century. A number of temples located in this city to witness how the teaching is achieved glory and lasted until the following milennia. However, in the era of the Meiji Empire, politics entered the area of religion. The emperor’s decision emerged in 1868 that limits Buddhism. Shinto became the only belief that era officially recognized it.

Trajectories was reflected in Tōdai-ji Temple. This is a magnet city of Nara. Here there is a giant statue of Buddha that was built during the reign of Emperor Shomu (724-749). Tōdai-ji Temple is also believed to be the largest wooden building in the world, who several times had to be rebuilt because it was badly damaged by the quake, fire, and war.

The current building is only one third of its original area. Bronze statue of Buddha which has 16 meters high and weighing about 437 tons of it, loomed a solid wood-paneled room. Simple room has gone through various times, more than ten centuries.

Nara is a city park. And, the gardens of the city inhabited hundreds of deer roam freely. They are believed to be incarnations of the gods. Come to the Kasuga Shrine and look valuable storage space from the Heian Period (Ages 9-10). All the exhibits have a connection with the legend Kasuga Deity, who arrived in Nara with riding a white deer. The legend set forth in the form of valuable works of art silk paintings, wood carvings, pottery, ceramics, until the war equipment. Everything b deer.

Kasuga Shrine is also known as the temple lanterns. There are about 3,000 stone lanterns flanking the entrance to the main building. While building on the temple was filled with rows of bronze and brass lamps. Special ceremony to light a lantern held only twice a year, the beginning of February and mid-August. Can be imagined, when the dark night surrounded Kasuga covered hills, and thousands of lanterns were lit … how beautiful.

Untreated

If you have enough time, could Nara surrounded by walking or riding a bike. Taxis are also easy to find. It’s just taken a taxi route is usually the main roads. In fact, among the narrow alleyways that snaked a lot of unexpected beauty. The houses of ancient architecture, beautiful temples, small scale, and also the cafe to unwind.

Language problems are often an obstacle for foreign tourists. However, a variety of brochures in English are provided free of charge at Nara station. Here, all goods prices also have attached so no need to haggle, just pointing things. Eating in restaurants is also very easy for all kinds of food have been made replica on display in the window, complete with prices. Japan also does not have a culture tips.

Restroom cleanliness? For this one needs to learn to Indonesia. Small room in any corner of cleanliness maintained. Queue at the train station or at the bus station does not create tension (due to imagine the condition of the toilet after use lots of visitors). Each person feels obliged to consider the interests of subsequent users. Always left the toilet in a clean and tidy condition. Culture that was the envy.

In addition to his life had become, comfort was also a part of an aggressive campaign to make the Japanese Government of Japan as a “domestic tourism”. Since 2003, Prime Minister of Japan at that time, Koizumi, announced a target to double tourist arrivals to the country to 10 million per year. The target should be achieved in 2010.

“Actually we are optimistic that this target can be achieved for the year 2008 the number of foreign tourists who come have reached 8.35 million people, or 4 million people added in four years. But now a global crisis. We must continue to work hard, “said Toyohito Shinada, Chief Official, Tourism Promotion Division, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan.

Japan’s industrial nations have become even feel the need to continue to work hard to fix its tourism industry. What about Indonesia?

In the middle of the afternoon sun, thousands of visitors have crowded Tokyo Disney Sea Harbor Mediterranean area to witness the parade of Disney characters, musical fountain and fireworks, I finally got also a place to watch this parade, though not very strategic place. This parade lasted about 30 minutes.

So far, I always watch fireworks at night, it was fireworks during the day also no less interesting, a path of white smoke in the sky is blue and the other pulling attraction is the musical fountain with the legendary Mickey Mouse as the mascot of Disney.

In the Tokyo Disney Resort area, there are two theme park Disneyland and Disney Sea. Tokyo Disneyland this year has been 25 years of age, while Disney Sea still 7-year-old child. Currently Tokyo Disney Sea  which is the only one in the world.

DisneySea vehicle consists of seven areas of American Waterfront, Mediterranean Harbor, Port Discovery, Lost River Delta, Arabian Coast, Mermaid Lagoon, Mysterius Island.

Visitors can buy a day ticket for Disneyland or DisneySea for 5800 yen, or tickets to Disneyland and the canal DisneySea for two days for 10,000 yen, for three days and four 12,900 yen 15,000 yen for the day.

Ride at DisneySea game and usually quite pleasant surprise given at the end of the game, like the Indiana Jones Adventure – Temple of the crystal skull, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Tower of Terror, Raging Spirits and three-dimensional viewing of The Magic Lamp Theater, vehicle Sinbad’s Storybook Voyage, performances Mermaid Langoon and around Mediterranean Harbor with Venetian Gondolas.

Adventures of Indiana Jones ride was quite exciting and quite a long time about 10 minutes and this time the queue was so long, because I already have a Fastpass can be obtained by first order about 30 minutes – 1 hour earlier, in the meantime we can play better first in the vehicle that is not so crowded. Visitors invited to see the various adventures of Indiana Jones, where the winding road and then as if we pursued the same stones that big, quite exciting and tense. This vehicle is one of the favorite rides in DisneySea.

Ride Journey to the Center of the Earth, visitors invited into the mountains and explore into the earth’s core with a jeep ride, the surprise at the end of the game such as entry into a dark cave, like a sudden free fall and crash, this game unfortunately too briefly about 5 minutes and the time required to queue about 30 minutes.

Tower of Terror starts from a very old hotel, with a lobby full of old items such as telephones, cabinets, painting the mailbox to the old and dusty impressions, then we took the elevator is very high, and came into the room and all visitors to sit in a chair and had to use a seat belt, then moved up one floor of a glass, one floor up another skull appears on the screen, up one more floor suddenly opened the door, we saw the mountains on the game Journey to the Center of the Earth, after that the We sat down like slamming into a free fall, at the time we unknowingly, there is an automatic cameras photographed the reactions immediately visitors who were shouting and at the end of the game we can buy these photos as a memento.

Raging Spirits is the mini-jet coaster made of wood shades, not too high and again that’s just called it the end, the time for about 5 minutes and the queue is quite long. Many visitors posed in front of the building’s unique Raging Spirits, where the steps of the building there is water and fire.

Sinbad Storybook Voyage, much like the doll palace children at Dunia Fantasi, Ancol Jakarta, invited to a boat tour to see Sinbad adventures accompanied by music, not bad for a short break about 10 minutes and set the vehicle queue length is not.

The Magic Lamp Theater, a story about aladin, the combination of comedy show with a cartoon of three-dimensional, in Japanese, quite funny though enggak understand the language, and at the end of the show, we sit on the bench rocking several times as if there kicking our bench.

Mermaid Lagoon is performing musical performance tells the story of the Mermaid and her friends, this show about 15 minutes. All the players are in the audience as if flying is giving the impression of swimming and the Mermaid’s beautiful with a very flexible body swinging on the swing while singing a very melodious, unfortunately, visitors are not allowed to take photos and video at the time the show took place.

Souvenir-souvenir sold at DisneySea in accordance with the themes and rides around the game, near the Mermaid ride, souvenir trinkets sold Mermaid, from pencils, key chains, brooches, pins, hats to dolls and funny-funny. Some foods and beverages sold souvenirs are also bundled with the price has been calculated as a purchase, such as ice cream get a jar of honey, Winnie the Pooh’s tiny and black forest cake with a small plate-shaped ceramic Mickey Mouse face.

After the tired legs ride around and play at DisneySea, visitors can also enjoy Big City Vehicles, which is around the antique cars, which works very slow as people were walking casually.

To be able to enjoy the whole ride DisneySea, it will take about two days, but this time I am quite satisfied enough to be there from 9am to 5pm.