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2016-07-16 01:01
in Japan, Japan2016, Ntrips, Trips
After our few days in Tokyo, we headed towards Kyoto for their Festival Gion Matsuri. We arrived in the mid morning via a very packed Nozomi bullet train (people were standing in the aisles for a 2.5h train ride), and after checking in our hotel, we went towards Eastern Kyoto to do a hike in the hills and end up in Kiyomizu Dera (I figured that the main attractions would be packed with people):
The amount of crowds made this less fun than it could have been, and Jennifer really did not like the huge crowds:
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
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 :)
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)
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