Kyoto-Himeji-Hiroshima-Beppu> Travels

So Kyoto has a lot of temples.　Yup. I will post some pictures at some point, but there were many and they were varied. I also went to Nara. There were plenty of temples there too including the biggest wooden building in the world. Yesterday i left Kyoto early in the morning and went with Jeff, a fellow traveler from Seattle, to Himeji castle. There we killed a ninja. I am not sure what his intentions were, but when in doubt, club with a stick and ask questions later. In retrospect, it may not have even been a ninja, but instead a toursit dressed in all black.
After hiding the body and finishing our tour of the castle we got back on the bullet train and randomly bumped into a guy I had met back in Kyoto, Mike from Toronto and went to hiroshima together.
There the three of us saw a baseball game. Hiroshima Carp V Fakuoka Soft bank hawks. It was pretty different from your average Yankee game. First, the players are all Asian　(besides this one big black guy). 2nd, the fans cheer often and very loudly, but in unison, led by trumpets and drums. They also rhythmicly clap together pieces of plastic.
After a couple of beers (poured by a woman wearing a beer backpack) and a few bowls of udon soup we became a bit rowdy and desided to cheer for the visiting hawks. When I yelled out, "It's Hawk Time!" the whole section turned and looked at me. In general people seemed entertained by our chacanery. The Carp came out on top 2-1 in the end on back to back home runs. Good times were had by all in attendance. After the game we got some dinner and walked by the hypocenter for the A-Bomb. It just had a little memorial and was next to a parking lot.
This morning the three of us went to the peace museum, which kind of gives you a holocaust museum feeling. Interesting though. We then got on board another bullet train and arrived in beppu, a resort Onsen town. Onsens are Japanese saunas and are an important part of their culture. We checked into a traditional Ryokan, a japanese style hotel and went to a sand bath where they buried us in hot sand for ten minutes. Good times also. Got to run.