There was one bonus to walking to Himeji Castle: finding the castle visitor's center. With the main keep shourded by a cover during reconstruction, this was the one place to see what it looks like...
They etched a 2-D image on the sides of the reconstruction cover, but from a distance this looked like an eyesore...
Onto the Himeji Castle property...
A look back from where I had come (Himeji train station)