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Having visited last year, the scenery around Toshogu Shrine in Nikko isn't all that different, if you manage to visit like we did first thing in the morning as soon as they open and before the tour buses rock up. (The shrine is surrounded by acres of sacred forest where construction is prohibited.)

The cities like Kobe and Nagasaki, on the other hand, are completely unrecognizable.

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RataNova 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

Nikko really does feel like stepping back in time if you catch it early enough

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ekianjo 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> The cities like Kobe and Nagasaki, on the other hand, are completely unrecognizable.

getting utterly destroyed by fire bombing (or atomic bombs in the case of Nagasaki) does that to cities.

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decimalenough 9 days ago | parent [-]

Kyoto was never bombed, but outside a very few carefully curated touristy bits, it's still an ugly AF concrete jungle that looks nothing like these pictures.

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ekianjo 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

Not the central part of Kyoto. You can walk in areas like Gion that have mostly remained the same for centuries. Of course as cities get bigger you get concrete. just like other cities Kyoto has grown in the 20th century and at some point you need concrete instead of wood

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decimalenough 9 days ago | parent [-]

Gion and Sannenzaka are the very definition of touristy Kyoto.

	▲	ekianjo 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		They are touristy because they are authentic in the first place.

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dudeinjapan 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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