Temples in Kyoto

I walked around several temples and shrines in Kyoto, after attending at my nephew’s wedding ceremony.

First, I started with Kiyomizu temple located in the east part of Kyoto. 

Unfortunately, Kiyomizu temple is refurbished now and the main venu is covered with construction sheets now. 

Then, I went down to Kodai temple, which is famous with the beautiful garden, via a tiny slope faced with traditional souvenir shops in the photo below.

This is a decoration by sands in Kodai temple.

I stopped by Yasaka shrine below to take a rest shortly and I got to know the next year would be a bad luck year for me in the sense that occult divination system based on Taoist theory of five elements; composed of woods, fire, sands, gold and water. 

I had a special treatment in the shrine for amulets, in particular, I took special Zenzai, meaning red beans soup with rice cakes. So I don’t have to worry about a bad luck in the next year anymore. 

I have just passed by Chion-inn temple, a very large temple.  

 I didn’t have much time to walk around there, then, I went ahead to Shoren- inn temple, famous temple with its garden as well. 

I saw more foreigners than Japanese people there. 

Finally, I went to a soba noodle shop, named Matsuba, serving a very delicious soba menu with salty-sweet dried herring, in Kyoto. 

My walking around Kyoto finished with this soba noodle but. I enjoyed a lot during my stay to see beautiful gardens isolated from the noisy outside world and made us concentrated on what I saw in front of me, the sounds of w-inds, rivers, swinging trees, and so forth.