We Went to Japan
...uddhas at the Hase-dera Temple in Kamakura. This temple also has a stunning 30 foot wooden Buddha. We took the sleek Shinkansen bullet train to Kanazawa. The train covers roughly the same distance I regularly travel on Amtrak to get to San Francisco. Of course the Shinkansen does so in a fraction of the time, with no waiting for passing freight trains and with clean bathrooms. Unfortunately, we can’t even aspire to this kind of basic social democr...