the little rock garden from our hotel.
it was meant to be an super early trip to the Bamboo forest but guess what, we were lazy haha.
The first stop was the Tenryuji temple, very pretty. Costed a few bucks to get in.
The forest is right next to the temple perimeter. It's FULL of peeps, and the only way is UP!
yeah ..
It's december and a rare red coloured tree had people queueing to take photo with!
yeah the temple with the golden exterior. would be tops if it's covered in snow.
Yes this is a ZEN Garden of 15 rocks. Legend was there some monk discovered them, made a garden and nice story out if it, and they have been charging entrance fees for 500+ years!
Yes,ROCKS ROCK!
It was getting dark and a trip to Ippodo tea house. Had an epiphany moment here with the very best Gyokuro
ever. (video of my expression available!)
Yums yums yums. Umami's definition is right here!
Tea, me or Tea?
An 'no' opera house with an Soba noodle with Herring as the mains. The salmon flakes on the rice was #OMFG nice.
It was more temples and shrines
Yes a black rabbit in the background to bless us with fertility.
Yet to have a good tofu session ( Tenryuji was meh, and others all tasted like mua-chi), this was the finally a super good soft/hard dual type tofu.
can't rem what this was... probably for the nice bonsai in the garden.
very cute kyoto shop, couldn't find this on TB!! damn!
v nice weather for this angle of the kyoto shrine.
The tofu shop.
yes all tofu-ish dishes were good!
The
angle for the postcard shot (if there's no one, during sunrise/set,snow..) can imagine right?
nice door.
it was a trek to the Sake places again...this waterway, imagine Sakura....
yes...Sake time
boring boring sakes
yawn
streets similar to takayama
all yawn
pit stop.
dinner in Osaka. tired like dogs already and we skip the pins on our google maps and hope to something 100-200meters from our hole.
Good-ish sake, meh Sashimi
But super uber good Kushikatsu! so good we went to another shop nearby for another round.
Did I mention that I dislike cities, all the 10k + steps by mid afternoon and the constant need to hydrate and look for toilets is really tiring. Yes..we were falling sick,...very sick!
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