Kyoto day 1

Kyoto is quite a historical town in Japan with seventeen Unesco World Heritage sites. It's also on the "golden route" of tourism in Japan. When we arrived at the train station for our hotel, we were immediately taken back aback by how many people there were. One of the sites is right across the street. We visited Fushimi Inari the following morning, and man was it crowded. You can't tell from the photos because I spent a lot of time cropping people out of them. We hiked to the top of the mountain, and on the way back down, we met a very nice local japanese man, who we chatted with for quite a while. It is rumored there are over ten thousand torie gates here and over one thousand stairs to the top. I didn't count them, but it is possible.
After dealing with all the crowds, we decided to go back to the hotel for the rest of the day.Read more