After a few weeks of Kyoto photos, including a whole post just on the station, I realized I still had so much more to share. As this truly special city will do when visited in person, it kept me lingering on it just a little bit longer. From the station there is the roof of […]
There are many temples and shrines in Kyoto, so many so it’s hard to choose which to go to and easy to get “templed-out,” where you go to so many temples and shrines in a short period they all start to blur together. Even still, some massive temples can sneak up on you like Higashi […]
When you think of Kyoto, you may consider golden temples, or endless series of orange torii gates at Fushimi-Inari, but if you were to pick the most iconic spot, the spot that most says “this is Kyoto,” it would have to be Kiyomizu-dera. It perches over Kyoto in the Higashiyama district. From the temple you […]
I first arrived in Kyoto on Christmas Eve, seven years ago, my first Christmas away from home. At the time I was with a group of friends hopping local trains from where we worked in the mountains of Nagano. Laughing and drinking along the way, by the time we stepped out of the train we […]