Fushimi Inari Shrine Kyoto

Firstly, let me apologise for the lateness of this blog entry. I'm writing this at 6:30am on Monday because we were all exhaused last night after a huge day, and with a really substantial headache a blog was the last thing on my mind. We were all in bed by 6:30pm last night (which doesn't seem so weird when it is completely dark at 5:30pm).

After cleaning up the mess we made at the Budget Inn, we left for fushimi inari, the ultimate torii(shinto gate) experience! A path going to the top of a small mountain and back, with red torii`s along the whole path, way too may to count! We did the whole path and when the loop brought us back to were we already were before, we just took some …

I understand the videos I've attached that tell the story of my misadventure in the Fushimi Inari shrine (the one that's in all the photos and movies) aren't working, which makes me a little sad, because they were kinda funny, if I do say so myself.

So I'll summarize.

Typically, when you show up at a shrine there's the shrine and …

Happy Fourth of July! This morning we headed to Nara, where I was slated to teach about Todai-ji temple. Nara is known for it's dear. The deer are considered sacred messengers and roam around Nara like they own the place. Everything in Nara is has some sort of deer on it - including the sides of the busses. As we walk towards the temple, there are …

We've been enjoying our time in Kyoto very much! The weather has been on our side most of the time, and we've had the chance to visit many interesting places. Among the highlights: the free guided tour of the old Imperial palace, with beautiful gardens and buildings, and a very enthusiastic and smiley guide; the day trip to Nara, which was Japan's …

On day two in Kyoto we decided to hit up a few specific sites that I wanted to make sure we saw in our limited time. We started with the Heian Shrine which was very pretty but the epic garden was what was the best part of it. The garden was beautiful but we could imagine it would be even more amazing in cherry blossom season or if it were full …

Kyoto is a lot less bloopy than Osaka and Tokyo. The tune that announces the subway is this terrible bone-disintegrating serious of chords that make you feel as if the train of incomprehensible horror is approaching, or perhaps a giant centipede from hell. Shudder.


It’s not all bad though …

Sunday 27th April 2008 – Kyoto

When I wake up I feel like a freight train has hit me, I have got a definite hellish lurgy. My entire head feels like it’s full of pudding. I take medication and vitamins with me to breakfast which turns out to be another lovely traditional Japanese affair with about 10 different dishes.
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Today was our second and last day in Kyoto! We did lots of exploring today and we visited four different locations. The first location was the Fox Shrine or otherwise known as the rice shrine. It is labeled the fox shrine because they protected the rice. It was so pretty and very orange! I brought a little doll that you draw eyes on when you start …

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... 'd managed to get some good shots. It had been something of a close shave, but we could now finally tick the Fushimi-Inari Shrine off our list... It was bloody freezing the next morning, in complete contrast to the previous day where I'd been walking ...

... -day temple trekking marathon we stopped in to see the great temples of Nanzen-ji, To-ji,Tenryuji, Fushimi Inari Shrine, Tofukuji, and Sanjusangendo. Like Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines are places of worship- in Shinto, millions of gods which ...

... . To all the SurveySite people out there - remember the Japanese restaurant we love so much? It's named after this place. Fushimi Inari Shrine, featuring 40,000 red torii gates that form a twisty path around a small mountain. "It is the middle ground ...

... destinations and focused on those rather than trying to see everything. My first destination, recommended by Estelle in Hiro, was Fushimi Inari Shrine. It took a subway pass and some walking to find it, passing crowds of tourists but the Shrine is quite ...

... the next morning bright and early with a day of proper sight seeing. We took a combination of local trains to reach the Fushimi-Inari shrine, an enormous complex at the foot of the mountain on the outskirts of Kyoto, dedicated to the gods of rice and ...

... god van de rijst en van vossen (google is awesome) en er zijn enkele duizenden shrines voor hem of haar gebouwd in heel Japan. Fushimi Inari shrine is beroemd om de eindeloze rij torii gates die over een 4 km lang pad staan. Aangezien het al vrij laat ...

... most of the hillsides were still green.  But we frolicked around enjoying the scenery just the same.  First we hit up Fushimi-inari Shine- the one with thousands of orange tori, one of the famous sites in the movie Memoirs of a Geisha.  ...

... instead, I tried to get a flavour for the city in just a day and a half. Yes, my feet are very tired. Fushimi Inari shrine In the morning, I visited the Fushimi Inari shrine. This is the famous one from all the photos, with the hundreds of torii ...

... in the space of 12 hours as we did on the 4th of June. It all started with a bright and early train trip south of Kyoto to the Fushimi Inari Shrine. The shrine sits at the bottom of a large hill and includes a maze of paths leading all the way to the ...

After a quick breakfast at Boulangere (Jen's new favorite place) we headed South of the city center to see Fushimi-Inari shrine. Me made it over to the subway station and grabbed the first one heading South. Unfortunately it was an express train that ...