In the morning we took the JR train network from Kyoto St. to Inari St. From this station we walked to and around the Fushiminarni-Tasisha Shrine, it had a lot of Vermilion coloured gates, along with a creepy cemetery. Vermilion = orange colour.
When we were done at Inari we took the train back to Kyoto station. Where we then used a bus pass we purchased for the rest of the day (Kyoto doesn't have the rail system that Tokyo does). Our pass was only 500 Yen (approx 5$ Canadian), and it was unlimited for that day. We did a walking tour (suggested by the Lonely Planet Guide) of the southern Higashiyama area of Kyoto. It is an area that is jam packed with, Temples, Shrines and Pagodas. We had a picnic lunch at a park in this area, a very nice place in the shade with a creek running by.
After lunch we took the bus to the northern part of Kyoto to see Kinakaku-ji (the Golden Temple), which was very neat to see a building leafed in Gold! But it was super busy as everyone who goes to Kyoto stops by this temple. After the Golden Temple, we took the bus to the Imperial Palace Gardens, where it was nice to chill out and walk around.
A few of the streets on our walking tour of Southeast Kyoto
The Golden Temple
The bus trip back to the hostel was crowded (it seems to get like that, when it is rush hour in Japan), along the way back we could see this huge plume of smoke coming from an area close to the hostel. We checked it out and it was a little building just down the street from where we ate breakfast that morning. Later in the evening it must have flared up again, because we heard all the sirens going back there.
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