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 aLäs mer
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 aLäs mer
Our final visit of the day was to the Path of Philosophy. This meant a metro journey and then a long bus ride in rush hour traffic to get there.
By the time we arrived it was gone 5pm and so theLäs mer
After breakfast we caught a local bus to the Hida folk village, about 10 minutes away from Takayama. The village is very much in the style of St Fagans or Beamish with a range of buildings that haveLäs mer
We had an early start and were on the train just after 7.30. We had two slow local trains taking us down to Toyama where we caught the Shinkansen through to Nagano. From here we took one final trainLäs mer
We had a leisurely start with breakfast after a reasonable night's sleep (considering we were essentially sleeping on the floor!).
Our train was scheduled at just before 10 so we left the hotel andLäs mer
So, our trip to Kapan is over and we're safely back home in Painswick following a very long journey via London and Manchester.
During our trip we made good use of the bullet train (Shinkansen) withLäs mer
Resenär😂