A quick 2 hour trip on the Shinkansen took us to Kyoto. Kyoto was once Japan's capital and the emperor’s residence between 794 and 1868.
Just up the street I decided I needed a coffee and standing in a Starbucks I turned around and saw this amazing temple just sitting behind a normal street facade.
The last thing you'd expect in Kyoto
Fushimi Inari Shrine (1000 torii) is an important Shinto shrine to the god or rice Inari (as the taxi driver took great pains to explain). It’s famous for its thousands of vermilion tori gates which are over a network of trails behind its main buildings. The trails lead into the wooded forest of the sacred Mount Inari, which stands at 233 m.
Still don't know what these guys were selling.
Just up the street I decided I needed a coffee and standing in a Starbucks I turned around and saw this amazing temple just sitting behind a normal street facade.
Gion is apparently Kyoto most famous geisha district (we only saw one “true” geisha in the back of a show as he was running to the theatre for the show – originally geisha were men). Gion is filled with shops, restaurants and teahouses. The area contains is also famous for it traditional wooden merchant houses.
Fushimi Inari Shrine (1000 torii) is an important Shinto shrine to the god or rice Inari (as the taxi driver took great pains to explain). It’s famous for its thousands of vermilion tori gates which are over a network of trails behind its main buildings. The trails lead into the wooded forest of the sacred Mount Inari, which stands at 233 m.
Still don't know what these guys were selling.
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