The Afternoon in Kyoto

Kyoto is a beautiful city that is very different than Tokyo because of its age. It is much older because unlike Tokyo, it was not rebuilt in the 1940s and 1950s. It was the capitol of Japan before the capitol was changed to Tokyo. It has the mountains at its side and is full of shrines and temples. When you are up in the mountains, it reminds me of a mountain town in Mexico because of the old buildings and the winding roads. The tour in the afternoon took us to three more famous sites including Sanju-Sangen-Do. That is a temple with 1000 golden Buddhas. The picture I included below is of one of the shrines we visited. Once the tour was over, Steve and I skipped out on the ride back to the hotel to walk around and explore the area. Even though we had no idea where we were, we walked and found some interesting things before stopping into a little roadside restaurant for some noodles before we took a taxi back to the hotel. Once there we realized that we were too tired to wait for the last Shinkansen train, so we traded our tickets for an earlier train. We got back to Tokyo and the hotel by 11 PM. It was a long day, but I was glad to have seen another part of Japan.