Kyoto - day 2 - Fushimi-Inari-Taisha

We caught the metro a few stops to Fushimi-Inari. This is a sacred mountain with literary hundreds and hundreds of O-torri gates leading up the mountain.

It turns out that my orange shirt was a close match to the official colour of the gates which is vermilion and is the symbolic colour of the Shinto sect of Buddhism.

The start was extremely busy with tourists but we persevered and by the time we reached the top, about an hour later, there were far fewer people getting in the way of photographs!😂

There were some great views of Kyoto just before the top and then on the way back down we stopped at a viewing area where where were some stalls selling drinks, snacks and ice cream and had a well deserved cold beer! (This is despite a sign much lower down saying that the mountain is a sacred place and good and drink cannot be taken past there! I guess that because it was being sold there the stuff must have been approved! 😉)Read more