himeji castle: mother of all japanese castles

antonette and i skipped town and decided to spend a few days in the kansai region. it's pretty far away, but if you take the shinkansen (the bullet train) it's only a 50 min. train ride from nagoya. more footage of that later.

we spent our first day traveling to himeji, a city famous for it's castle. himeji castle is one of twelve japanese castles still standing in their original condition. it's also the largest. take a look.

check my blog for a sweet himeji castle slideshow as well, http://marlowg.blogspot.com/
(music by: dgenerate nation and sebteix)

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• castle
• himeji
• japan
• kansai
• train

[koishy69]

Was song which Antonette song "True" by  Spandau Ballet?

[marlowgum]

@koishy69 yea, it was. hahaha

[CooLDsteR]

In the beginning, was that the monorail or train?

[marlowgum]

monorail

[kenbo1992]

I live in near the himeji castle!

And, there is my high school in north of castle.

I run in front of castle every day^^

[marlowgum]

haha cool! maybe we saw you running!

[allgoo19]

Nice video.

[kenbo1992]

haha^^

[marlowgum]

neat! thanks for the info.

[juscotte]

The straw blankets attract bugs in winter.

So they put them on the trees in winter and burn them in spring.

It is a traditional way of insect pest management.