Saturday, December 22, 2007

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8th Day (2:11:07) Kyoto

The hotel bus took us to the morning Kyoto Station, where I undertook the same reservation for the onward journey to Tokyo the next day. Next door is the Kyoto Tower Hotel with "built" tower, while not very high, but still offers very good views of the surrounding city and the numerous temples in the area.


This huge (24m high) Kannon statue is photographed by one of the telescopes at the Kyoto Tower.




A portion of the Hiroshi Hara, designed and finished in 1997 station building.


The main building of Higashi Hongan-ji (东 本 愿 寺) temple is being restored.


outer wall of the Higashi Hongan-ji (东 本 愿 寺).


Hongan In the two temples ( Higashi and Nishi ) plays out, especially the religious life, while making other temples in the tourism dominates. There are libraries, government buildings and programs for the believers.

Typical
with gold decorated entrance to the temple grounds.


Ginkgo tree on the temple grounds



Quite a long bus ride across Kyoto later in the botanical garden:


"As a long nose! " :-)



bonsai garden




Now a short foray was followed by the tropical garden.




buses are functional above all - the look is suffering.


traditional house


The Daitoku-ji (大 徳 寺 ) is an entire temple complex, consisting of 22 sub-temples, gardens, ponds and a bamboo grove.




Next to the Daitoku-ji Shrine is the Imamiya.




went Unfortunately, the visit of the Kiyomizu-dera ( 清水寺 ) because of the very heavy traffic not from before sunset.




on the access routes to the temple (one of the main attractions of Kyoto) line up the souvenir to each other.



Gion (祇 园), a traditional neighborhood, formerly famous for its Geikos .


Gion is today visited by tourists in particular, partly because of the traditional pubs.


traditional restaurants, which are also traditional tables, which means sit on the floor. Untrained sleep here very soon the legs.

The tube is a gas supply line for a kind of fondue.


"Hmm, that place will probably be it ...?"


left the base ticket (Hiroshima-Tokyo with break, which is cheaper than two separate tickets), the right of the "Super Express" award by reservation for the trip from Kyoto to Tokyo. Both tickets will be retained by the machine at the station at the exit.

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