2 Days in Kyoto

Without These Pictures, It Is Confused In My Memory

4/15/24 - 4/16/24
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Lucky Him

We're All Going Someplace

One should not be surprised that a Grand Tour of Japan by Train requires a great deal of time in train stations and among other tourists.
For some reason that 2 weeks later escapes my memory, we had almost three hours of free time in a very congested area waiting to go to another tourist destination. I wandered away looking for a quiet spot to eat.
I found it.
Although the seating booth was not so great, the meal was delicious.

View for a Table of 1

View of a Wonderful Lunch

English Description of What I Ate

Somehow we arrived at the Tenryu-ji Temple and the famed Bamboo Grove.
I was glad that the guide felt it would be a difficult walk. I am sure it was beautiful but marching uphill single file with thousands of others in 80-degree weather did not sound very pleasant.

Start of the Bamboo Forrest

My Group Walked through the Bamboo

I did enjoy a couple of hours strolling through the Arashiyama gardens.

Arashiyama Garden

Arashiyama Garden XI

Arashiyama Garden I

Arashiyama Garden IX

Arashiyama Garden V

Arashiyama Garden II

Arashiyama Garden VII

Arashiyama Garden VIII

Arashiyama Garden XII

Arashiyama Garden XIII

Arashiyama Garden VI

Arashiyama Garden III

Arashiyama Garden X

Arashiyama Garden IV

A Great Deal of Manual Labor to Make Fencing

Make a Wish

We then found our way through the throngs again to our hotel. I had considered going ahead by taxi but was glad I didn't. The itinerary I printed identified a different hotel!

Hotel Lobby

My group went to view the famous geisha girls of Kyoto but I knew it would be packed with tourists so I stayed in and enjoyed 1 hour of drinks for 1500 yen.

Hotel Lobby Supper

The group arose early the next day to visit the temple of a thousand torii the Fushimi Inari Shrine.
I took a taxi even before they headed to the metro and wandered through the gates almost alone.

Early Morning

First Temple

Tassle and Bib

Detail Detail

Thousands of Torii Gates

Steps to More

View of Some Gates

Another Guard Dog

Cat Hears Breakfast

Through the Gates

One Could Climb the Mountain to Another Temple

I Did Not Go Left

No Tassle Only a Bib

I think the group was walking through the gates when I descended. I decided not to wait for them. I think they were going to visit another temple.
Somehow the taxi driver and I were able to figure out how to get me to the Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design.

Entrance Sculpture