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While you are in Kioto devote one day to a trip to Lake Biwa. You can charter a little boat there and have a half day on the lake, and remember to return by boat through the tunnel and via the canal to Kioto, a two hour trip and very beautiful; You should also devote another day while at Kioto in taking a trip down the rapids. On your return, tell your guide to stop at Arashiyana -- a beautiful place for lunch and where you will see a mountain side covered with fine forestry.
Hakune is another interesting place. It is on Lake Biwa and ca be reached by rail on the Takaido Rly. The hotel here is an old Daimyo's house, and you will find it rather interesting to sleep in the room of state in Japanese fashion.
Do not fail to go to Ise, which will take about three days from Kioto and can be made en route from Hakone. At Ise you will find great Shinto temples and you will doubtless meet great bands of pilgrims who go to this holy place from all over Japan. Don't fail while at Ise to give an evening to a popular dance given up town and which, while some people may criticize it from a moral point of view, you will find on the contrary to be one of the most beautiful and chaste ceremonies your imagination can furnish.
If you enjoy a little roughing and want an exciting canoe trip, go from Nagoya over the Nakasando and down the Tanrugawa River coming out at Hamamatsu. to make this trip will require about one week, and it will take you through the central mountainous part of the country and wind up with an entire day in a long slender canoe rushing for twelve hours through the rapids of the Tanrugawa. It is an experience most interesting and exciting.
From Tokio you should go to Nikko and spend a couple of days at this place, visiting the temples and waterfalls, and then on to Chugenji, which will take one day. If you find the temple interesting, it will pay you to continue on to  Zenkoji, and finally to