Himeji was cloudy and grey when we arrived. As we walked towards the hotel, it started to rain lightly. As we dropped off our luggage at the hotel, we ventured to find a place to eat (Coco Curry House: great curry) and to see the main attraction: Himeji Castle.
The castle has just finished renovations in March. It's apparently as white as it was first built. The insides of the castle were extremely bare. The stairs were quite steep to climb within the castle. I was worried at times that I would slip and fall.
After the castle, it started to rain quite heavily, but we ventured to the nearby Kokoen gardens. We didn't go in far, but it was enough for us to see how it was like. Finally, we left to see an anime building known as Animate. There were TONS of anime and manga material within the building!
After accomplishing all that, we went back to the hotel to check in. We went out afterwards to look for dinner, but with our dwindling cash, we went to a place that we knew accepted our credit cards: conscience stores. After dinner, we headed back close to Himeji castle to take a picture of what it looked like at night, though we didn't stay long since it was raining quite hard.
And that's pretty much it! Time for bed since tomorrow is going to be quite a day!
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