Lots of gardens

Walking on through the quarter we came to the Gangoji temple. Behind the present temple is a very nice peaceful…

Traditional Naramchi House

From there and the Wakamiya Jinja Shrine we again took a less frequented route back to the loop bus and…

We re-traced our steps and set out for the Todaiji temple hoping to see two gardens on our way. We…

We bought our last train tickets – to and from Nara for today and to Osaka tomorrow – and then…

After that we decided to head for the ‘Silver’ pavilion but on the corner we found a fast food place…

The Australian couple told us that when they had been here 10 years ago they had also visited a museum…

After breakfast we set out to see more of Kyoto. We bought day tickets for the buses and then managed…

The whole complex is known at Nijo castle, within the outer walls there is the Ninomaru palace which is where…

We caught the 9.03 train and arrived in Kyoto at 11.9. After dropping our bags at our hotel, we took…

More interesting was the ‘house’ or perhaps room would be more accurate, where the walls inside and out were all…