There are few places in the world that get over 50 million visitors a year – Kyoto, is one of them and deservedly so.
There’s a great athmosphere about the place as the locals go about their business and the tourists wander around in awe at the amazing ancient sites coupled with a modern metropolis.
Yesterday, soon after we arrived, we went for a walk around. Kyoto is famous for ceramics so we checked out some of the shops and visited the train station, even the train station is worth visiting it’s over 20 stories high, has about 30 restaurants and a few department stores. There’s a viewing area on the roof which gives amazing views of the city.
Later we went to the Japanese equivalent of a dive bar, had some great Yakatori food and a few drinks.
Today after a late breakfast, we visited the Tenryu-ji temple, which is really cool and has amazing gardens, Japanese no less 😁
The famous bamboo groves are also there, very impressive. If you’ve seen the movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, same place.
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