Staring at Rocks

Trip Start Mar 14, 2006
1
19
374
Trip End Mar 15, 2007


Loading Map
Map your own trip!
Map Options
Show trip route
Hide lines
shadow

Flag of Japan  ,
Sunday, April 2, 2006

Renoji garden in Kyoto is a Zen temple best known for it's rock garden which contains 15 stones set in an area of raked gravel. The meaning of the garden is open to interpretation for the viewer to imagine what it represents with some saying the rocks are like islands in the sea. Not being one to spend too long staring at gravel I spent my time trying to see all 15 rocks at once which you supposedly can't no matter what angle you view the garden from.

Leaving the garden a little cross-eyed I walked back through some narrow back streets in Kyoto wondering how they ever find exact addresses here with no street names and so many little houses jammed in together.

Before getting on the train back to Osaka a group of Sumo wrestlers walked down the platform which was quite a sight when around 8 of them come bounding your way.
Slideshow Print this entry Kyoto hotels