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So day 2 on Miyajima Island, we came back this morning as last night all the temples and shrines had closed. We got there early and it wasn't raining :D there where only 2 things that we wanted to see really before we headed back to Hiroshima.
First we went to Senjokaku or the 'The house of 1000 tatami mats' it is a library of Buddhist sutras that Hideyoshi Toyotomi started to build to repose the war dead, however the construction still remains unfinished today due to Hideyoshi's death, it was amazing and the pictures don't really describe how good this place was.
Next we went to the Itsukushima shrine, this shrine along with the o-torii gate looks like its floating in water at high tide. This is the main shrine on Miyajima island but there was not much to see apart from the interesting architecture and was pretty amazing for a building that was built in 593, one of the most notable part is it has one of if the not the largest 'noh' stage in Japan.
So after quickly doing those two we got back on the ferry to Miyajimaguchi to check out of the hostel, we then got on a local train back to Hiroshima, from there we got a Shinkansen back to Osaka to collect our luggage from the hostel we stayed in there..nightmare, then had to get 3 trains to Kyoto with all of our stuff! To reach our next hostel.
Kyoto is Japans old imperial capital from 794 until the Edo period were the power finally shifted to Tokyo and lost its status as capital in 1868.
So obviously a lot to explore but we got there pretty late and it was raining really bad so we just chilled out at the hostel the first night planning the next day.
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