On 09/07/2014 09:16 AM, Band Beyond You wrote:
> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>> On 2014-09-06 16:16:52 +0000, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net said:
>>
>>>> But I really meant in the last days days somewhere in the semi-coastal
>>>> area between Kyoto and Tokyo; generally in *that* part of the country.
>>>> Nikko? Izu peninnsula.
>>
>> The first week of the trip we're in Tokyo and have considered Nikko as a
>> day trip. This afternoon we booked the last 4 nights of that period in
>> Shimodo on Izu Peninsula, and the first two nights at Koya-San.  That
>> leaves the five days in between.  We'll have spent a big hunk of the time
>> in Kobe and Kyoto so we're reluctant to plunk down in Nagoya, which seems
>> to have a lot of lookee-loo stuff.  We may try to go to a quiet smaller
>> place, a no-place-in-particular burg; but you can see how they are hard to identify...
>
> Have you considered Soga, the armpit of Chiba?
> <kidding>
>
> Seriously, Nokogiriyama is close enough to Tokyo either via driving or
> train to make an interesting daytrip.

What's the name of the place where Nichiren was born?  It's on the 
Pacific side of Chiba, a three-hour train trip out of Tokyo.  Lots of 
good mountain / ocean / temple photo ops.  The same train route lets you 
switch to a local route inland and go to Otaki, a castle town that is 
mainly unchanged since the 18th Century and the site of "Satomi Hakkenden."

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CL