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Kyoto by Photo (R)

Written by Stephen on July 1, 2008

Kyoto by Photo

Photobucket — Old Town Kyoto.

Photobucket — Overrun with geishas and tourists.

Photobucket — And in fact, tourists dressed as “geishas” for a laugh.

Kyoto in Bloom — At the right time of year, blooming with sakura trees.

Photobucket — This was somehow my favorite town in Japan.

Photobucket — The temples were full of traditional clothing….

Purity of Water — … and happy children.

Tori Tunnel — The peaceful vibe extended from the very gates of the temple…

Zen Rocks Garden — …all the way through the last calm an quiet garden.

Alms — And even the monks found blooming sakura trees!

6 Comments

Nurdahlia
July 3, 2011 at 12:06 am · Reply

wow! amazing picts and amazing experiences! 🙂
- slioy
  July 3, 2011 at 12:14 am · Reply
  
  Thanks, it was a fun city for sure! Anything cool going on in Makassar lately?
Escape Hunter
July 22, 2014 at 3:28 am · Reply

Beautiful places, too bad I missed most of the old parts.
When I was there I got plenty of the box-like concrete buildings and straight streets. Kyoto looked totally like the cities in those Godzilla movies…
- Stephen
  August 8, 2014 at 4:19 am · Reply
  
  Ha! Perhaps you picked the wrong neighborhoods to explore?
  - Escape Hunter
    September 2, 2014 at 1:39 pm · Reply
    
    I wasn’t looking in the right places, that’s for sure. Only towards the end of the trip did I discover the more interesting parts – a castle and some palaces.
    Of course, I visited the Kinkakuji Temple (Golden Pavilion), but the modern parts of the city felt terribly boring.
    - Stephen
      September 2, 2014 at 2:54 pm · Reply
      
      I rushed through here just long enough to see the pretty bit, really, and missed the modern side. Well worth another trip with a better camera and more developed eye for photography – this was like 2010 or something.

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