Replacement now is 20 to 25 years.

Not in the Kita village but we follow lesser roads and find also this house.

Some great mountain roads through Sasari and Hanase Mountain pass each up and down from 400m to 750m

Yuki Shrine just north of Kyoto dating back to 940AD.

A few hundred steps up the mountain soon worked off lunch.

Camp 27 - Windy Road camp

Its just of the edge of the road.

Lyn had had enough of these narrow roads.

Today: 90 Kms

Total: 3,520 Kms

Thursday 18th May 2023

KInkaku-ji.

Kyoto’s famed ‘Golden Pavilion’

Dating back to 1397 its covered with gold leaf.

We covered some of the major gardens in Northern Kyoto -

some 14,000 steps according to Lyn’s phone

This one Ryoan-ji

Also at Ryoan-ji

I have a love and hate with Bamboo.

At home it took me 7 years to finally rid the garden of some bamboo I planted because it would be ‘Nice’

Here in the Bamboo Garden near Ninna-ji its at its most beautiful, and it can propagate at its free will.

Camp 28 - Truck stop on Expressway No E1A as we head back to Kobe

Today: 177  Kms

Total: 3,697 Kms

No this is not the washrooms in a Versace Hotel but those in Michi-no-Eki expressway service centre.

Clean Clean even with fresh flowers.

Up market food shops and about 70+ trucks slept around us

Friday/Saturday/Sunday  19/20/21st May 2023

We fly to Vietnam on Saturday for 5 days - why in the middle of a Japan overlanding trip ?

Because we wish to spend 4 months in Japan, yet the visa system only allows 90 days, however if you leave and return the 90 days starts again.

So we have to sit on a beach in Southern Vietnam and drink (according to Lyn) Pina Coladas for 5 days.

Well that was the plan until we got to the airline checkin and our travel agent stuffed up the bookings %$#@$#$! . Change of plans we jumped a flight to Seoul/South Korea returning Monday.