Shrine and Dine
After spending one glorious day wandering around Kyoto, exploring the local shopping scene... (I'm not going to let it go. The Door Handle Collection is insane.) ...and dining-upon-the-river scene.. ...Keith and I didn't blog about it (unless you count the pics above) and instead slept so that we could get up early and go on An Epic Journey through Time Itself in order to experience some local Shinto Shrines. First up was the Kiyomizu-dera Temple, perched atop a little shopping area. It was somewhat under siege by construction and children visiting on class trips... ...but it was beautiful nonetheless. It was lovely, but definitely felt like a tourist stop when compared to the Fushimi-Inari-Taisha grounds: It was pretty jam-packed, too because of its series of more than ten thousand orange torii gates, which lead you up to the top of Mt. Inari, with stops along the way at more than a dozen shrine