Here we go!!
Continuing to the second part of my Kyoto Trip! For the next two days, my
itinerary is down below.
Day 3
Kinkakuji
Ryoanji
Arashiyama :
Tenryu-ji, Bamboo Path, Togetsukyo bridge
Day 4
Fushimi Inari Taisha
Nara: Todaiji, Kasuga
Taisha, Heijo Palace
Starting our day 3,
again by bus we went to Kinkakuji for around 40 min.
Literally there’s
nothing there except the beautiful golden pavilion of Kinkakuji. The weather was
nice at that time.
From Kinkakuji, we
went to Ryoanji by walking for around 15 minutes I think, a temple that is
famous for its zen garden. A little bit disappointed, because we expect a much
bigger garden while in reality it’s quite small. So much for an expectation huh.
But I love how they set the garden just beside a classic traditional Japanese
tatami room. Unfortunately they forbid us to stepped in.
Finish with Ryoanji, the
most exciting travel part begin!! We walk from Ryoanji to the nearest station
for Keifuku Railways and from there we went directly to Arashiyama. The station
was so in-the-middle-of-nowhere. I like that kind of feeling, contrast with the
over-crowded ambience of Tokyo. Why everyone go to Tokyo?? Why?? The train has a very
antique ambiance also.
Arashiyama is known
for its bamboo path. Even when we reach Arashiyama station, it’s all bamboo nuances.
From station we
directly go to the Tenryuji.
And on the back of the
Tenryuji, is the bamboo path that I’ve been wanting to go to!!! It’s been ages
since I really want to go here!! Took a lot of selfie here but of course I
cannot post all what...
Finish with the
temples and bamboo path, we kinda just strolling around Arashiyama. It was very
exciting since along the road there are so much omiyage shop (souvenir shop) so
we shopped there quite a lot, to bring back to Tokyo.
We ate yudoufu too,
boiled tofu, the special dish of Kyoto..
See fake Geisha..
Usually its tourist dressed up as geisha. We know it’s fake because we have
seen the REAL ONE and the big difference is how they walk. One see and you will
know hahahaha. Real geisha take small tiny angelic step, like they were flying
while walking. These two... never mind ah.
I saw one store I
think, offering Geisha makeup, clothes rental + photo studio + 1 day experience
as Geisha for around 12.000 yen until 20.000 yen depends on the clothes I
think?? But so expensive wtf I cannot even...
Okay. We continue to
walk along infamous Togetsukyo bridge..
Take photos with the
yatsuhashi (famous Kyoto omiyage) iconic lady, Yuko.
Accepted the fact that
we were quite exhausted at that time (all the tiredness accumulated from the
first day), we went back quite fast for that day and had a somewhat simple beer
party at our hotel. We slept early because the next day will be a heavier
journey to Nara. Yay!
And that’s the end of
our third day!
Our fourth day, as
mentioned before, we went quite far from Kyoto. We went until Nara. However in
the middle, we visited Fushimi Inari Taisha that is famous for its 1000 red
gate along the mountain (it’s like one way to Nara, but this temple is our top
priority too).
This place is one of
my bucket list of my life. Since I saw the movie, memoirs of a Geisha, I
really want to visit this place. This is the photos from the main gate, the
beginning of the 1000 red gate and the red gates itself.
It seems that the
sacred God in here is a fox God or something. They have foxes statues
everywhere. Even the wish-plate is fox head shape! So cute! We brought the
wish-plate for 500 yen here, wrote our wish on the back of this fox-shaped wood
plate and decorate the fox faces as creative as possible! Everyone fox is
different it was so unique.
Finish with Fushimi
Inari Taisha, didn’t want to waste time we went straight away for Nara. Nara is
famous for its wild but friendly deer all over the place!
We went to Toudaiji
Temple in Nara. SOOOOOOO HUGEEEEE see the human and building ratio wtf
And another temple
nearby called Kasuga Taisha.
After that we went by
bus to a site called Heijo Palace. This is a palace that was used as a
headquarters for several years when Nara was still the center of government
before they moved it to Tokyo. This palace site is so big, you can see from the
photo I took. The first photo is the main gate, and the 2 next is the main
castle from faraway and closer look. It took around 10 minutes more to walk
from main gate the main castle.
We take a little sneak
peek inside the palace and I took photos from the palace veranda.
A site guide told us
that long ago, between the main gate and main castle, there used to be a lot of
buildings that supported the castle, making it one big castle site. However due
to earthquake or renovation or something (FORGOT..man...), they lost it and only
maintain the two main buildings, the gate and the castle itself. It’s very…
majestic.
I can say Kudos to all
the temples (and castles) in Nara. The magnificent level is out of mind,
especially Todaiji Temple is so frickin big even it’s so hard to fit it on one
camera screen. However one of the inconveniences is the transportation system
is somewhat worse than Kyoto, so mostly we walk from one place to another. But
that’s still fine because while we walk, we enjoy all the scenery and calm
ambience of Kyoto that can never be found in Tokyo.
And Nara summed up my
fourth day of Kyoto trip. Time so fast flying, and that night we start
packaging and have this unneeded mellow feeling that our holiday is soon coming
to an end… This mellow yet satisfied feeling. How to say?
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