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Day 7 For the next couple of days we were in Ohara. Ohara is a rural town around an hour’s ride north of central Kyoto, and is technically within Kyoto’s city limits, but in other ways a world away. It’s nestled in a valley between the Hira-san-kei Mountains to the east and the Kitayama Mountains […]
Day 6 Today was a Sagano Bamboo Grove & Arashiyama Walking Tour. This one will also be a little sparse on details, because the guide we had wasn’t the best. He was probably new at his job, but his biggest problem was limited English vocabulary. He labored over the things he had to tell us, […]
Day 5 Today we went to see Nijo Palace, Kinkaku-ji Temple, and the Kyoto Imperial Palace. This was a much bigger tour, with a whole bus-load of other people who were going on to do Nara in the afternoon or more of Kyoto. We weren’t familiar with the guide since we joined them mid-tour, but […]
DAY 4 Today was the first day of 3 “organized” day tours I’d signed up for, and this one was to visit the Fushimi Inari Taisha (Shrine) and tour a saké factory. I’d planned half-day tours because I didn’t want to exhaust myself, so left the afternoons free. However I didn’t realize this meant we’d […]
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