It can be a very zen walk - as long as you want to share it with a 1000 of your best friends. Not sure how I go this shot of so few people! There is a street leading up to or from the shrine where there are many vendors of Yakorti - Grilled things on sticks. The Japanese people love fatty foods. So dark chicken, very marbled beef and fatty fish are served everywhere. The fried chicken here is to die for even if it is always thigh meat. Corn on the cob - good too. Fried octopus - you can have that too!
We took the JR train to the next spot, the Sagano Bamboo Grove.
Still seeing a lot of people dressed up in kimonos. The really elaborate one with the big hair do was heading for photo shoot. The young man with the weird looking instrument was playing beautiful music.
On to the Tenryuji Temple. It includes "a garden as large in scale as mountains in nature". You climb up many steps to get this view.
The last stop of the day is to the Togetsu-kyo bridge. Very famous for its ability to blend into every season.
It only sprinkled a little on our way to get some diner. We went for Italian just for a change of pace. Italian food is very popular with the Japanese - so we had several choices of restaurants. I have to admit it felt very strange to be using a knife and fork after two weeks of chopsticks!
neat, especially that bridge! I am trying to recall if we ever had Japanese food fatigue but we were there for so much a shorter time. And our children fell in love with noodles.
ReplyDeleteWas the bamboo forest "singing" to you. I will always remember the sound in the one we walked in when in Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteSuch great pictures!
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