Kyoto 2024 Spring - Day 2

Today's plan is 宇治->伏見->伏見稻荷神社

It's a good day. A bit windy, but with sunshine. Took the bus to Kiyomizu-Gojo Station, transfer to KH Uji line (red). From the station, we crossed the bridge (Ujibashi) to visit the Byodo-in Temple.

Ujibashi

It's a short walk about a quarter hour. Once in, you see the nice view of the temple (below).

平等院/Byodoin 鳳凰堂/Phoenix Hall

If you have a Japanese 10-yen coin, you can see the temple image on the reverse side of the coin. This is how important this is to the Japanese history and culture. Uji is the hometwon of the Japanese most important family Fujiwara (藤原氏).

Follow the route, we toured around the garden, the museum, and the gift shop. Then we walk on the river bank, saw the cherry blossom; cross the river to Uji Shrine.

Uji and Ujikami Shrine are World Heritahe Site, next to each other, and Tale of Genji Museum. we didn't spend time in Tale of Genji Museum. Maybe next time after we study a bit about the Tale.

Lunch at Itoh Kyuemon - Uji Head Shop / Sabo 伊藤久右衛門 宇治本店・茶房

Dessert shop Nakamura Tokichi Honten (Main Store) 中村藤吉本店 is a traditional tea house. The waiting is more than an hour. We took the number and toured around the area while waiting.

Tea jelly (matcha), green tea ole, and mochi zenzai with chestnuts

Next stop Fushimi Inari Taisha. We took the train to Inari Station, and quickly saw the crowd.

Apparently many tourists came here and took the hike, so did we. There are these orange poles along the path. Each one marked the donors. The bigger the higher the amount of money contributed.

From the top, it is the city view (south of Kyoto). Should be very nice at dawn.

Dinner at the Kyoto Station, a branch of a store specialized in pickle. Check out their website. If you order a full set, you get unlimited rice and variety of pickles. After dinner, we took hotel's free shuttle back to the hotel.

Continue Day 3

早上前往宇治,看平等院、寶物館、吃抹茶吃甜點

中午吃飽後前往伏見,看小河、逛酒造(沒去)

下午伏見稻荷神社,走到最上面看市景 (夕陽還有點早)

晚上回京都市區吃晚餐