The Lost Gallery - my first digital camera was lost during this trip, so I had no pictures to post here.
However, my brother (who I was visiting) did take some pictures, which I have scanned for this page at last.
 
 

My brother (center) worked on an "American-themed" paddle wheel steamship called the Michigan.
 
 

I ride the ship as it cruises Lake Biwa from Otsu (near Kyoto).
 
 

Cherry blossom time (not when I visited) at Midera, a temple in Otsu.
 
 

A playground in Otsu that Justin calls "Ojiyama Death Trap".
 
 

Justin and I at the enormous Kyoto train station.  "Kyoto.  Kyoto des." a freindly voice says as your train arrives
 
 

Justin and I with Mayumi (then his friend, now his wife) at the train station.
 
 

Isn't that a great logo for a delivery company?
 
 

Mayumi and I contemplate alongside Kyoto's "Philosopher's Path".
 
 

We visited a "Monkey Park" in Kyoto where the people were caged, feeding the monkeys outside.
 
 

A monkey and his motorbike.
 
 

Justin asks for advice on seeing Kyoto's sights.
 
 

At the ancient capital city of Nara, we fed deer considered to be "voices of the gods".
 
 

The deer on the right got impatient and ate a piece of Justin's paper bag (we only noticed the bite marks later).
 
 

Me in front of Horyuji, a five story pagoda in Nara.
 
 

Todai-ji, a gigantic temple in Nara, is the largest wooden building in the world.
 
 

Closer up, the building and the metal structure in front of it make a face.
 
 

Justin and Daruma wave hello.
 
 

Inside the temple, a giant gold Buddha.
 
 

Justin passes through Buddha's nostril.
 
 

Me looking lost in Tokyo.
 
 

Me at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
 
 

Peace dome, a building partially obliterated by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
 
 

A memorial with some of the millions of paper cranes delivered by schoolkids every day to Hiroshima.
 
 

Sculpture gardens at Mitaki-ji (Three Waterfalls Temple) above Hiroshima.
 
 

The floating torii gate at Miyajima was beached at low tide.  Locals gather crabs beyond.