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Kyoto
Travel Blogs from Kyoto, Japan
Orange as far as the eye can see...
... 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 sake in the 8th century. The main feature of this temple is a a winding 4 km ...
Kyoto
... sie tam zostac duzo dluzej. Miasto jest pieknie polozone - otoczone jest wzgorzami (wilgotnosc powietrza jest przez to bardzo wysoka). Kyoto slynie ze swych swiatyn, zarowno Shinto jak i buddyjskich (czesto sa nie do rozroznienia). Jako kwatere polecam ...
Back to the hills of Kyoto
... doesn`t appeal to me. Although I must say the takoyaki (octopus balls) are tastier in Osaka! As soon as I arrived back in Kyoto, Akira and friends picked me up from the train station and we headed up for Kurama, a small mountain village about 3o minutes ...
Court message
... identite propre que les Chinois n'ont pas. Mise a part la salubrite, je me suis sentie beaucoup plus en Amerique a Beijing qu'a Kyoto ou a Tokyo. Par exemple, ici, ils ont des fast food domestiques tandis qu'en Chine, ils ont 3 ...
Kyoto the garden of Japan
... couple of vodka and lemons on the roof it all seemed better though. We strolled into the centre of Kyoto and found Gion - This is the old Japan we have wanted to see. Small winding streets, paper lanterns hanging from wooden fronted teahouses and lots ...
So Many Temple
... to a speak and spell. but I prevailed. After some underground walking, and street guessing, I headed above ground expecting to see Kyoto, the traditional Japanese looking town, prided in ancient preservation... alas, I rose in the middle of a jam-packed ...
Nijo Castle
... de 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 ...
Kinkakuji & Ryoanji
... zijn, dan hoor ik het wel :). Daarna zijn we naar Ryoanji gelopen, welke vlak bij Kinkakuji ligt. Ryoanji heeft een beroemde, in Japan althans, rotstuin. Deze is erg simpel; het is een tuin van 20 bij 15 meter met daarin 15 rotsen op wit gravel. De ...
Kiyomizudera & de rest!
... onze spullen en gaan gelijk op weg. We hebben namelijk gelijk een drukke dag voor de boeg. Je kan beter enkele maanden in Kyoto verblijven, wil je alles kunnen zien, maar we willen in de 4 dagen die we ervoor uit hebben getrokken toch zoveel mogelijk ...
Fushimi Inari & Uji
... Snel weer terug naar het appartement, even wat schone kleren aangetrokken en daarna met z'n allen naar Uji, een klein dorpje onder Kyoto. Veel mensen stranden hier op hun zoektocht naar goede Japanse thee. Een groot gedeelte van de beste groene thee komt ...
Arashiyama
... dat maakt verder ook niet uit. Voor vandaag stond eigenlijk Amanohasidate op de planning. Één van de drie mooiste uitzichten van Japan volgens zeggen. Het probleem is alleen dat de treinreis naar Amanohasidate niet geheel wordt vergoed met onze JR-pass. ...
Iga Ueno & Nara
... kleding ze droegen. Een bijzonder stukje cultuur en mooi om dit nog ergens te kunnen zien. Nara (vroeger ooit Japan's eerste hoofdstad) brengt ons weer iets heel anders, namelijk herten! In de buitenwijken van Nara lopen werkelijk overal rond. ...
Japan Railway
... American or a human for that matter after seeing the Abomb dome and going through the museum... then we took the train back to Kyoto. We somehow got on a Nozomi train which isn't covered by our rail pass and I think the fact that I dint know ...
A visit with Izumi, Alice and Nobu
Becca, Alice and I attempted to make our famous brownies. We had the ingredients, but used a pan that was too large. We had a lot of fun, laughing all the time, but the brownies will be better next ...
Kyoto - continued
... the zen garden which surrounds it. For dinner we went to Tagoto Hongten, which is a well established soba noodle restaurant in Kyoto, I had some noodles with shrimp and chicken, very nice! 2/12/08 Today we planned to see Nijo-jo, a Japanese ...
visit to Nara the old capital of Japan
... 1 hour 40 mins, it was so slow , and the fast train that left nara 30 mins later than our train overtook us way before Kyoto station. Later in the evening we visited the area called Gion this is the area where the Geishas used to ply their business, the ...
Lovely city
Hello from Kyoto! Sorry we`ve been a bit slack with entries, but internet access hasn`t been readily available. Or, we`re ...
The fire symbols
... night, the city is just buzzing with singing and partying wherever you go. I'm simply amazed at the scale of their festivals here in Japan, what a great time to come and see what people are like! Well time goes by far to fast for my tatse. It's time ...
Hello Kyoto
... and it showed how big this place is and how inadequate my camera is at taking night shots. I also headed into Kyoto station (massive.....just massive) and noticed there is much less information in English. There isn't even a train ...
The Grand Tour
... than a photo opportunity. Kiyomizu-dera is a temple on the east side of the city. It actually was founded before the building of Kyoto. The temple is built around the a natural water spring. It is built on the side of a mountain and sits out overlooking ...
Kyoto Leaves
... tori, one of the famous sites in the movie Memoirs of a Geisha. After that we roamed through the streets of Kyoto for a few hours sampling pounds of yatsuhashi (Kyoto's famous triangle mochi sweet) and pickled vegetables. Finally, we ended up ...
Kyoto
We boarded the Shinkansen at 8.15am bound for Kyoto and arrived about 10.30am, caught a taxi to the Kyoto Royal Hotel. Because check in was 2pm we left our luggage and journeyed off to the Gion district which was a 15 minute walk from the Hotel, we ...
Heian Jingu
... arriving in Kyoto and checking into our hotel we went to Heian Jingu. This shrine honors the first and last emperors of Japan to reign while Kyoto was the capital. The shrine is a small copy of the original imperial palace in Kyoto. Even though it really ...
Notes on Japanese Culture and the Imperial family
... in Tokyo. 8 Million live in the city and 4 million in the suburbs. Japan is a constitutional monarchy. The postwar constitution of 1946 states that the emperor only has symbolic power. He officiates at ...
Hangover Travellng
... was the perfect way to start curing the hangover. Got a JR train to Kyōto, the slightly more expensive type of train in Japan. My accommodation is quite decent from first impressions, a world away from the kind of place I was at in Osaka. This is a ...
Visite de - Kyoto - Visiting
Salut tout le monde Nous allons bien. Nous avons visite le vieux cartier de Kyoto avec un jeune prof quebecois rencontrer a notre guesthouse ce matin. Nous avons passe par quelques temples. Dommage que nous ne sommes pas dans la saison ...
Kyoto Procession
... anything, because traffic was backed up because of the procession. In the evening I went to a fire festival in a suburb to Kyoto. It was absolutely mad; I haven't seen so many people packed together before. From getting on the train in Kyoto till ...
Bamboo, Ryoanji, Kinkakuji
... I spoke to the Japanese couple next to me who were very friendly and wanted to know all about my impression of Japan and Kyoto and Japanese people, and to my great delight complimented me on my chopstick technique! I was thoroughly contented after lunch, ...
AN AMENDUM re. Legs
After continued careful observation (purely for journalistic accuracy you understand) I have concluded that not all Japanese girls are as innocent as I earlier suggested. ...
The ninja dog of Kyoto
Today was the first of two days we visited the cultural capital of Japan, Kyoto. Kyoto was a 40 minute train ride from Osaka. We concentrated today's sightseeing in the Southern Higashiyama area. Lonely Planet had a walking tour that we ...