シンガポールのBU-CHAN LIFE IN JAPAN: Kyoto Day 3 Part 1

Once again, we got up early in the morning, had our breakfast and headed to Fushimi Inari Taisha. This shrine famous for its 1000 torii gates trail which lead into the mountain of Mt. Inari which probably need 2 hours (heard from the elderly Japanese ladies while waiting for our train). I decided to give up after realising we only climbed 1/5 of the journey as we still have a long day ahead. I was pretty sure, I won't be able to continue all the climbing if I used up my energy at our first destination.

Thenafter, we took train to Arashiyama (嵐山), famous for the bamboo groves and Togetsukyo Bridge. There are many shrines and temples worth visiting as well. Okaasan recommended us to visit Jojakkoji Temple, famous for Japanese tourists but hardly any foreign tourists. Indeed, the path around temples did not have groups and groups of never ending crowd so it was very relaxing to take our leisure stroll and to explore.

One of S recent worry was that he forecast that he will be turning "hage" (bald) when he's older. Since his grandfather was one and his dad was not, as he said that baldness usually skip a generation lol. Hence, we stopped by the famous hair shrine that many Japanese especially men went. For then on, the never ending tourists appeared once again....lol... The bamboo groves were indeed very beautiful (if only lesser people), you barely can take any pictures without people in your background.

My feet were starting to ache again when we were touring in Tenryuji Temple, keep sitting down to rest in the garden and honestly speaking I was not in the mood to continue to take in the scenery anymore. Felt bad since the admission fee was not cheap. We left and went to look for lunch.

Fushimi Inari Taisha

Inside Fushimi Inari Taisha

tracing the trail of the famous 1000 torii gates

looking back of the gates, each gate listed name or company that donated for the construction of the gate and date of it was built.

The map of the gates the surrounded the mountain trail, said to take at least 2 hours to finish, we only covered 1/5 and i gave up. Beside the map, it stated the how much donation needed to "get" a torii gate.