Last day in Kyoto, time for another hike. Today I took a trip to Fushimi Inari Taisha on the Inari mountain. Most famous for the pathways filled with Vermillion Torii gates.
My day started easy, good old toast & jam breakfast and heading out to the station. JR Inari is only like 7minutes from Kyoto Station. So really easy to access.
Well I walked the way up trough all the gates to the top (233m). And went down again to the start of the loop to the top. Just a few minutes up another road you get a really nice view of Kyoto.
There I took a side path down to a secluded shrine. Arriving there I noticed another way out of the forest. So I took it I passed by a small bamboo forest and stumbled upon a little town and eventually ended up at the Tofukuji temple complex.
Here I got some Dango as lunch together with a melonpan I brought with me.
After this I went back to Kyoto station and decided I’d try and find the way to the Kingaku temple. But when I sat on the train I didn’t want to pay a bus fare to the temple. So I decided to just stay on the train I was on and go to Arashiyama instead.
There I found the biggest miniature diaroma in Japan. Here they rebuild Kyoto and all of its temples, shrines and other important buildings. They have multiple trains running around and there’s just so much happening at the same time. There’s even a special Totoro spot!
After the diaroma I made my way to the Arashiyama bridge passing by another temple complex.
After that I went back to the hostel, grabbed myself a plate of Gyoza and visited the second hand store in the mall.
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