The biggest wooden building in the world! (in the background, the structure in the foreground is me)

Without a 50p beside it it's hard to judge how big this sucker is. Trust me, he's much much bigger than he looks.

This guy isn't spectacularly big, but he sure is scary.

Enlightenment, here I come - and that's now official.

The moat around Kyoto's Nijo-jo.

There's some nice gates and stuff inside of it.

Like this one, for example.

Nonomiya-jinja, a shrine where some princess or something used to come to pray, or something. Hmm, I should have paid more attention.

It's just a graveyard, but I thought it looked nice.

Ahh, bamboo.

A snack with a view.