{"id":260,"date":"2013-04-21T22:38:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T12:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/?p=260"},"modified":"2013-04-21T22:38:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T12:38:48","slug":"day-23-koyasan-to-osaka-2042013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Day 23 \u2013Koyasan to Osaka. 20\/4\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up early today for our 6:30am Buddhist prayer service with the monks. Difficult to work out what was going on, and damn near impossible to kneel for half an hour, but a really interesting experience. After our dose of religious experience we headed back to the room to pack our bags, then head to breakfast, a mixture of mostly unidentifiable objects that the monks call food. I\u2019d been doing well with the Japanese food so far, but I couldn\u2019t manage this meal. After a poor attempt at eating we were back in the room eating the bananas and snacks we had bought from the mini-mart yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Next we were off to explore the other end of the village. A large area of temples and shrines was close by, with some amazing buildings dating from the 9<sup>th<\/sup> century, with additions made right through until the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Being much colder than down at sea level, the cherry blossoms were still out at Koyasan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-261\" alt=\"IMG_5501\" src=\"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5501.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5501.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5501-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5501-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5503.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-262\" alt=\"IMG_5503\" src=\"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5503.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5503.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5503-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5503-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-263\" alt=\"IMG_5514\" src=\"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5514.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5514.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5514-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5514-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5523.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-264\" alt=\"IMG_5523\" src=\"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5523.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5523.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5523-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5523-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We took the train back to Osaka, and met Michiko and her uncle late afternoon for a short river cruise, before checking in to our hotel at Shin-Osaka \u2013 the worst hotel yet. Tiny, smelly rooms with windows that don\u2019t open. At least we had a nice dinner and bottle of wine at a restaurant in the nearby station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up early today for our 6:30am Buddhist prayer service with the monks. Difficult to work out what was going on, and damn near impossible to kneel for half an hour, but a really interesting experience. 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