Day three: After the lunch, we took the bus to Kinkaku (Golden Pavilion) which is properly called Rokuon-Ji Temple in Kyoto. In the 1220's it was the comfortable villa of Kintsune Saionji. We then spent an hour to enjoy a show of Kimono (http://www.japanesekimono.com/kimono.htm) of Nishijin-ori (which is the best silk fabric of Kimono). Kiyomizu Temple (http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/spn/kyoto/sightseeing/area4/index.html) is another temple worth to spend some time which is frugal and is quite different with the Golden Pavilion (splendor). The main temple of the Kitahosso sect of Buddhism which is founded in 778 and built starting 798 on the side of Otowa Hill. The Main Hall (National Treasure) with its wooden balcony is a beautiful work of architecture in the Heian period style with a single-ridge roof sloping in four directions and cypress-bark roofing. It contains an image of the Eleven-headed Kannon (Important Cultural Property).

Day four: We spent whole day at Universal Studio Japan to play around. We had great time there except the long waiting in line.

Day five: We spent two hours in Osaka-jo Castle (http://www.infocreate.co.jp/hometown/osaka/midoko5-e.html) before we leave Japan. Osaka-jo Castle was built in 1583 by the order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The original five-roofed donjon was destroyed by war. It was 4 or 5 times larger than the present building which was rebuilt in 1931. After the death of Hideyoshi, the castle was rebuilt by Tokugawa Shogunate. Unfortunately it was destroyed by fire once again. Osaka-jo Castle's foremost attraction is its huge rock walls.