We started the day with the Fushimi-Inari-Taisha Shrine and we were clearly not prepared.
The shrine is basically a path that takes you up the hill and back down.
Easy you may say.
Except the path was basically one giant staircase and we had not packed the baby carrier, only the stroller. Stubborn as we are, we powered through until the top: me carrying Oskar and Wolfram everything else (yes, the stroller, the diaper bag, the camera bag...). And then all the way down.
While the effort was much more than we expected, the place was really worth it. Especially towards the top as fewer and fewer people would reach it. It's simply unbelievable the atmosphere they managed to create. Nearly making you forget the pain you are in.
After our little climbing experience, we decided to keep it easy for the rest of the day and only visited one more temple: Kiyomizu-dera it was.
A small temple located on a hill with ramps everywhere so we could easily push Oskar around. A temple like we like them.
We walked back to the hotel through some old parts of Kyoto. This was more what I had in mind about Kyoto vs. the modern part of the city. It was a perfect way to finish our visit of Kyoto, on a peaceful note.
For dinner, we ventured in one of the local restaurant near the hotel. One of those were they cook at the counter and you eat as the food is being prepared. We ordered different dishes: Japanese pizza (which I like very much), Japanese pancake (which had too much green onion for my taste), some scallops and fried noodles just to make sure we would have enough in case any of them did not taste good. Food was very good, ambiance unique, the chef and his wife very attentive to us and Oskar. A true Japanese experience!
The shrine is basically a path that takes you up the hill and back down.
Except the path was basically one giant staircase and we had not packed the baby carrier, only the stroller. Stubborn as we are, we powered through until the top: me carrying Oskar and Wolfram everything else (yes, the stroller, the diaper bag, the camera bag...). And then all the way down.
While the effort was much more than we expected, the place was really worth it. Especially towards the top as fewer and fewer people would reach it. It's simply unbelievable the atmosphere they managed to create. Nearly making you forget the pain you are in.
After our little climbing experience, we decided to keep it easy for the rest of the day and only visited one more temple: Kiyomizu-dera it was.
A small temple located on a hill with ramps everywhere so we could easily push Oskar around. A temple like we like them.
We walked back to the hotel through some old parts of Kyoto. This was more what I had in mind about Kyoto vs. the modern part of the city. It was a perfect way to finish our visit of Kyoto, on a peaceful note.
For dinner, we ventured in one of the local restaurant near the hotel. One of those were they cook at the counter and you eat as the food is being prepared. We ordered different dishes: Japanese pizza (which I like very much), Japanese pancake (which had too much green onion for my taste), some scallops and fried noodles just to make sure we would have enough in case any of them did not taste good. Food was very good, ambiance unique, the chef and his wife very attentive to us and Oskar. A true Japanese experience!
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