After spending our first four days in Japan traveling in and around Kyoto, Julia and I took a Shinkansen east to Tokyo. We spent our first day in Tokyo at Asakusa, Shibuya, and the Imperial Gardens.
For our second day in Japan, we used our JR Pass to take a shinkansen bullet train to Hiroshima and then caught a ferry to Miyajima Island. Miyajima is famous for it’s “floating” Great Torii Gate, forests, and temples. The Great Torii gate marks the entrance of the Itsukushima Shrine. We explored all of this and more on our second day in Japan.