Previous Day: Hiroshima & Fushimi Inari
Destination: Japan
Duration: 8 Days 8 Nights (Nov 27~Dec 05, 2017)
Day 6: A Long Walking Day at Eastern Kyoto with Abundance
of Autumn Colors
We would have 3 days in Kyoto before our flight back to
Malaysia thus I copied this Eastern Kyoto Full Day Guideline (link) as our itinerary of the day. We quickly realised that we
could not fulfill the itinerary as we departed in the morning too late and
deviated to other destination instead. =P
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| Guesthouse Entrance in morning... |
There was the Kawaramachi Shomen Bus Stop near our
guesthouse where we took bus directly to Ginkakuji (Silver Pavilion) – our 1st
destination. It was quite a long ride and we bought this beautiful handmade
hair accessory from this old lady. We actually had to walk part of the Philosopher's
Path before reaching Ginkakuji entrance. We made some snack break before
finally entering Ginkakuji at 11am+.
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| Waiting for our bus... |
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| Off we go... |
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| Arriving at Eastern Kyoto... |
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| Philosopher's Path |
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| Matcha & Matcha Puff! |
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| Yum yum!!! Look at lil one's hair clip! Newly bought! |
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| Finally at the Entrance of Ginkakuji... |
The main Ginkakuji was surrounded by
beautiful garden with trees in magnificent autumn colors. Thus the abundance of
photos we took that day were with trees rather than with the building.. =P
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| Ginkakuji in Fall |
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| With trees in Autumn colors |
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| Vibrant Autumn Colors |
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| More Colors... |
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| Too much photos... |
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| Moss |
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| Green & Yellow |
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| More pictures again.... |
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| Sammy wanna takes picture too! |
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| A View from the top |
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| Going around the garden... |
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| Ginkakuji & the Lake |
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| Goodbye Ginkakuji! |
After leaving Ginkakuji, we walked the Philosopher's Path
along the canal for a long time. At 1st we were complaining most of
the leaves along the path had dropped and we could only take picture of trees
without leaves! Thing quickly changed when we finally walked past the area with
the leaves intact. Yay!!!
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| Philosopher's Path!!! |
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| Where are the leaves?!!! |
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| Yes! Finally there are leaves!!! |
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| Really love this view at Philosopher's Path |
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| The View & the Drawing by an artist there.... |
We bought a deep-fried crab stick from a random stall along
the way – it was non-greasy and did not taste like our normal fake crab stick
sold in Malaysia. We continued our walk until reaching Eikando Zenrinji.
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| Random stall... |
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| Giant Crabstick |
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| Still walking nonstop.... i think this is the junction to yet another temple which we skipped... |
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| Sammy needs to make an appearance! |
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| The Ducks!!! |
Eikando Zenrinji had all the autumn leaves which was even
more striking than the ones at Ginkakuji. The garden was like a sea of red
& yellow maple sea and we just couldn’t stop taking pictures there.
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| Finally we are at Eikando Zenrinji!!! |
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| More Autumn Leaves!!! |
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| Red & Yellow! |
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| Autumn Leaves everywhere!!! |
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| Inside the temple... |
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| With Stairs! |
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| Addicted to Autumn Leaves! |
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| What else? More pictures! |
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| Still at the garden... |
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| Exterior of the main temple.... |
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| More leaves.... |
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| More Stairs! |
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| A view of Eastern Kyoto from the top... |
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| Leaves, Lake & Reflection... |
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| Eikando Zenrinji is really breathtaking in Autumn... |
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| Another picture with Sammy, Bridge, Lake & Reflection... |
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| I have to take a picture too!!!! |
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| Goodbye Eikando Zenrinji... |
It was already 2.30pm by the time we left Eikando Zenrinji
so we decided to skip a few destinations in our original itinerary since we
were simply running out of time. Nanzenji was in our way thus we simply walked
in and took pictures of the 2 buildings before continuing our super long walk
to Kiyomizu-dera temple.
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| Having some steamed sweet potato... |
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| The Gate of Nanzenji |
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| I guess this is the main temple of Nanzenji? |
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| Another view of the gate... |
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| OMG!!! Taxi with Malaysian Tourism Advertisement! |
We were following tripadvisor offline map and continued
towards Keage Incline – the place should looked beautiful during cherry blossom
season as it was surrounded by cherry blossom trees.. too bad we were there at
the wrong season though. =P
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| Keage Incline... |
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| At the railroad with cherry blossom trees without cherry blossom! LOL!!! |
We walked, walked & walked through some uphill shortcut
before passing through the entrance of Chion-in temple & Maruyama park –
both we did not went in. We finally arrived at Higashiyama Street which was
completed crowded until one could hardly move!
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| A Lake at Maruyama Park |
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| Let's get some hotdog for lil one... |
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| Higashiyama Street with tons of people.... |
Finally we reached Kiyomizu-dera temple at around 3.50pm
which was quite late. To my disappointment, the main temple was under
construction and its upper body was completed covered. This was my 2nd
time to Kiyomizu-dera and during my 1st time there was some
construction going on for the pagoda near the entrance (link).
Guess the construction had been on-going on different buildings of the area for
years. Gosh! I’d never had a break with building under restoration for my
travel… *rolleyes*
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| Kiyomizu-dera Entrance!!! People Mountain People Sea again... |
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| Near the Bell.. |
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| The Pagoda behind the main gate which was under restoration during my 1st visit... |
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| Lots of girls in Kimono! Most of them are from China though.. =P |
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| Fiery Red Leaves |
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| The hill with Pagoda at the other side... |
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| At one of the Corridor.. |
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| Everywhere is a photo spot there... |
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| Magnificent view... |
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| Yet another Magnificent View from spoiled by the half covered main temple... |
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| See what is wrong with this picture? *cry* |
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| A View with Sunset & the Pagoda |
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| The covered main temple again! *facepalm* |
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| This is the Pagoda at the other side... |
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| WHY???!!!! |
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| The Otowa-no-taki.. did not queue for it this time... |
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| More red leaves... |
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| With Pagoda & lake... |
It was 5pm++ by the time we left kiyomizu-dera and the
Higashiyama Street was still full of people. We left the area quickly as we really
were not fond of tight spaces. We proceeded to walk to Tenamonya – a famous
teppanyaki restaurant near Yasaka shrine. We were starving as we did not have any
proper meal for whole day. Thankfully there were empty seats when we arrived at
the restaurant. It was a family-run restaurant with husband & wife and we
saw them turning out patrons several times during our dinner there since the
small restaurant was full.
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| Finally we arrived at our dinner destination |
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| We were given these to choose for our sake... |
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| Definitely need a beer! |
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| Small restaurant & full of patrons.. |
We ordered grilled wagyu beef, pork ribs, soba wrapped with omelet & some deep fried plate with beer & sake. The food was indeed excellent and the wagyu beef was indeed melt-in-your-mouth goodness!!! Definitely a must-go restaurant! *thumbs up* The owner was so nice and gave lil one a small gift when we left and she was telling us it made her happy to see lil one enjoying herself there. Awwww…….
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| A Family photo taken by the owner... |
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| Eyes on the FOOD!!! |
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| Deep fried foods, pork ribs, wagyu beef & soba wrapped in omelet... |
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| A gift from the owner... |
We took a picture at the front of the Yasaka Shrine but were
simply too lazy to walk in anymore. We walked through Gion shopping street as
well as the junction of Hanamikoji Street but were also too lazy to walk in….
mind you, we had been walking nonstop since morning until our dinner thus
forgive us for being a slouch at this hour. =P
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| The Gate of Yasaka Shrine.. |
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| Streets at Gion |
Hubby was looking at the tripadvisor offline map and noticed
Ippudo Ramen was just around the corner thus we walked there for supper. There was
a queue there even at 9pm but thankfully it wasn’t that long. We ordered the original
white ramen & spicy ramen. The broth at Ippudo was not as concentrate as
Ichiran but still had its own allure. Lil one was really enjoying the ramen
there.
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| Queuing for Ramen.... |
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| Our Ramen... |
After supper, it was time to WALK back to our guesthouse
again which took us another 20-30minutes. Basically it was really super long
walking day for us. Anyway, now I understand why Japanese girls are so thin! They
got free cold slimming treatment especially during cold weather!!! My leg was
basically frozen and remained cold even after reaching the hotel as I was too
lazy to wear stocking. =P
Next Day: Lazy Day at Arashiyama
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