sucks to ride a bullet train like this

Kodai-ji

fresh water cray fish

after our hike, we arrived at Shoren-in's Seiryu-den with a nice view of Kyoto

and we arrived at Kiyomizu Dera

On the way back to our bike, we managed to get in Kodai-ji just before it closed:

with a view of Ryozen Kannon next door which had already closed

we were lucky enough to see our first real geishas in the wild :)

Last, but not least, for the first night of Gion Matsuri: Yoiyama which is the viewing of floats in the streets. I figured it would be viewing of floats with a bunch of street vendors and that it'd be all nice and good. In real life, it was an insane sea of people, it was super hard to get anywhere, streets were randomly closed even to pedestrians by making them pseudo randomly one-way.
The amount of crowds made this less fun than it could have been, and Jennifer really did not like the huge crowds:

it got bad

then I went to bike back to our room (Jennifer had left earlier)