Nagoya Castle

The day started with a long warm comfy night at Sakai-san's and he took me into Nagoya to see the castle there. The castle was burnt by American firebombing in 1944 or so; rebuilt by 1959. It is a real fortress, with TWO moats around it, it's very forbidding and of stone, and the inside (obviously made to hold museum stuff, not to show off a "castle," is full of warrior costumes and swords and the like. These guys really liked to play rough, apparently!

Uneventful, fast ride from Nagoya Station to Kyoto; the only problem is the luggage, since these train stations are not made to be handicapped (or therefore luggage) accessible.  I can, and do, haul it up and down stairs, and usually someone comes along who will help too, but I shouldn't have bought that carpetbag in Bangkok, I know that now. However, at this point, I have only to get a taxi to the minshuko and get to the train station one more time; from there it will travel fine on the Shinkansen straight to Narita Airport.  

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