Kinkakuji

Kinkakuji, the Golden Pavillion, is one of my favorite temples in Kyoto. We very conveniently live equadistantly between Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka. It is about an hour from our apartment to each of these cities. Last week we went to Kinkakuji which was quite beautiful and then we went to the Ritsumeikan University Museum of Peace.. It had a very balanced view of WWII which is quite unique in Japan. Japan generally has a victim mentality in regards to the war. Most Japanese see it as something that happened to them without much sense of national responsibilty. Anyway the museum was quite interesting.