Kyoto Day 3

Yet another early start as we headed to the bamboo forest. The bus stopped right at the bottom so we walked up the hill and fortunately it wasn’t too busy just yet. At the top we stopped for breakfast and then walked down through the park to the river.

We then walked back through the town to Tenryu-ji Temple and spent time in the garden with the colourful leaves 🍁 and different plants.

We then walked back up through the bamboo forest which was much busier and visited Okochi-Sandi villa. Here we spent time meandering through the gardens and then had green tea 🍵 in the tea house.

We then walked through the old streets looking at shops and visited a memorial temple before heading back in the direction we came and catching the bus to Kinkaku-ji.

This golden temple was busy but we made our way around before catching the bus back to Nishiki market and going to a restaurant for tempura.

In the evening we had combini dinner.

After lunch wRead more