Kyoto- 京都 part 2

The adventures continued on day three with the Arashiyama bamboo forests, Ryoan-ji, Kinkakuji and Kyoto Station.

River crossing at Arashiyama

Bamboo

At Ryoan-ji Temple

The famous rock garden

Hardware

Fire buckets ready to go

Moss repairs

Loved these mini bell flowers

We got to make our own okonomiyaki for lunch! Tanoshikatta!

Kanji for "big" embedded on the mountain-side.
There are five of these giant kanji on the mountains around Kyoto that get lit up during a summer festival

Kinkakuji- Golden Pavilion

This picture cracks me up, the nice German man totally blocked Kinkakuji hahaha

Kyoto Tower from Kyoto Station

Gotta love those illuminated stairs

Another beautifully designed train station

 

Our last day I visited the Garden of Fine Arts, wandered rainy backstreets, and bought omiyage in the cute boutique shops of Gion.

My rainy walk along Kamogawa to the Garden of Fine Arts

Monet's "Water Lilies: Morning"

At the Garden of Fine Arts, the world's first outdoor art garden. Facility designed by Tadao Ando

Michelangelo's "Last Judgment"

DaVinci's "Last Supper"

Detail from Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming shanghe tu"

Detail from Zhang Zeduan's "Qingming shanghe tu"

Great lines

With DaVinci's "Last Supper"

Van Gogh's "Road with Cypress and Star"

With Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon"

Bottles lined up outside a restaurant along the river

Dreary, rainy, and beautiful

Pretty sure Narnia is back there somewhere

Lanterns and plum blossoms

Shopping street in Gion



Beautiful aged home on the way back to "downtown" Kyoto from Gion
 

Kyoto- 京都 part 1 can be viewed HERE