Inari Shrine

We spent our second and last full day in Kyoto navigating by subway. Thankfully, the rain had stopped, although we did encounter small patches of rain throughout the day.

Our first stop of the day was the Inari Shrine, which is the iconic shrine with thousands of brightly colored torii gates. I hadn't researched Inari Shrine much, and so I was surprised to find that the shrine took up a big chunk of a large hill and that there were trails going up. Along we way, we noted that there were many kitsune (fox) statues all over. Apparently, Inari is the god of rice, and kitsune are the protectors. The trails were mostly covered with torii, with lots of little shrines all over with little torii and kitsune statues. Jeff the geek counted the torii on the trail and he gave up - there were over 3,000.

The walk up and down the hill took most of the morning. We were both hungry by the time we got back down to Inari station, so we bought lunch at a convenience store and ate while sheltering from a short downpour.

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