Yesterday I arrived in Kyoto. Finally! I was waiting so much for this day and the expectations were really high.
I make first a stop at the accommodation to leave my backpack and I ask the person that welcomed me where should I go for my first thing that I visit in Kyoto. He recommends me a temple around (it was not on my TO DO list) and I leave in that direction. The weather was a bit gray and all the buildings seemed gray, the temple was boring and I was for some time sooo disappointed. Where was the Kyoto that I saw in the pictures?
I found it today, when I started to check the places on my list. Kyoto is really beautiful and a place to come in a lifetime!!
The Rengeoin Temple has 1001 life-sized statues and a huge one of the Kannon. It’s one of Japan’s national treasure, photos are not allowed. But it was breathtaking!! So many statues, in one hall, it looked like an army!!
The streets around Nineizaka-Saneizaka were also crowded with thousands of people:
The Ryozen Kannon statue was very quiet, for some reason the tourists are not interested in seeing it.
There is a small temple inside the statue:
Zenkojido Temple – with great views over Kyoto:
The Yasaka shrine (during the day and evening):
Nanzen-ji Temple:
The Eikando Garden entrance during the evening had a very long queue of people. If I would have wanted to stay and wait to enter, I would lose minimum 2 hours of my life. But I had a glimpse of what I could find there:
The beautiful streets of Kyoto:
