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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1006.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180410_105230.jpg) | Inside the castle | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180410_105451.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1013.jpg) | The inside moat | | From the top of the watchtower platform |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180410_114509.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1024.jpg) | Little sticks with nearly invisible string were set out, I assume to discourage ducks | | Beautiful gardens |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1026.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180410_121242.jpg) | | | Interesting bench |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180410_165443.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180410_171633.jpg) | Workers were fixing the concrete steps of the house next to our AirBnB | | We walked along a little stream west of our house for a while |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180410_173526.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180410_174652.jpg) | I saw these water bottles next to houses, all over the streets. I assumed it's a disaster preparedness thing, but then when looking it up, it appears people do it to repel cats! | | At a restaurant. This one was not a winner |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180411_102337.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180411_104425.jpg) | In the Arashiyama area. We went there primarily to go to the Monkey park, but turns out it's a big tourist area! | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1032.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1035.jpg) | Monkeys galore! | | This monkey baby was being groomed, clutching leaves in both hands. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1049.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1054.jpg) | Feeding time | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1058.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1064.jpg) | | | Sometimes they got a little feisty |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180411_112254.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180411_114954.jpg) | | | Along the Katsura river |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180411_121907.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180411_130124.jpg) | We had lunch at a peaceful riverside restaurant. They led us to the one table that actually had chairs - at the others, you sat on mats. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1086.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180411_132931.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1092.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180411_140454.jpg) | The streets in the Arashiyama district had lots of tourists! | | Peter, posing in the style of some of the Japanese ladies we've seen |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180411_140557.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180411_141330.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180411_143951.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180411_144213.jpg) | At a smoking rest area in one of the temples | | Japanese style RV |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1106.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180412_100622.jpg) | Kenny at the local Indian restaurant. He was very happy to have some curry. | | The little stream that runs east of Horikawa Dori. Would have been a nice place to walk |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180412_102545.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1109.jpg) | The park around the Kyoto Imperial Palace. There were some CRAZY wide gravel avenues. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180412_104826.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1119.jpg) | At the info center of the palace | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1122.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180412_112018.jpg) | Beautiful gardens | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180412_112338.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180412_112518.jpg) | This man was manually plucking every single plum off this tree. It must have taken hours | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180412_114213.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180412_121953.jpg) | Sweeping the leaves up, with a little straw whisk. This is why everything is so clean! But you'd think they would use a blower or something to make it faster. | | The bento selection at a local convenience store |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1131.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180412_140537.jpg) | On the Philosophers Path | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180412_140513_b.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180412_145439.jpg) | | | On the way home, saw a family in kimonos on the bus |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180412_152041.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180413_104956.jpg) | ... and a boy in a school uniform, complete with cap and fancy school bag | | On our way to the railway museum, we walked through a very active fish processing area |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180413_112747.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180413_113037.jpg) | Kenny as a conductor or an old bullet train | | The public toilets at the museum had the same fancy, complex self-washing features that the toilets found in most homes do |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1154.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180413_113749.jpg) | The new bullet train will look like this | | Building an arc |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180413_114302.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1165.jpg) | Peter is self propelled on a train track | | Why train wheels are shaped as they are |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180413_115244.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180413_120733.jpg) | Pretending to be a conductor | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1187.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180413_144448.jpg) | At the old steam train | | Doing a bullet train simulation |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1196.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180413_180342.jpg) | | | A kid's meal at the Tenkaippin restaurant, which mainly carried the Kyoto style of ramen soup with heavy broth (which tasted like essence of fried chicken) |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180413_183243.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_100720.jpg) | This is how you buy celery here - in single sticks! | | It's always a jolt to see the Buddhist symbol, which looks like a swastika, but laying flat and turned the other direction. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1202.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_134114.jpg) | At Fushimi Inari Taisha, a Shinto shrine | | The gravel is very smooth because it's layered on a criss-cross mat. It looks like it's been raked smooth, but it's caused by the crossgrain of the mat |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_134646.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_134715.jpg) | The fox, wirh red bib, is a Shinto messenger of Oinari, the god of food, farmers, and the rice harvest. | | More good-fortune sticks for sale |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_134839.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_135528.jpg) | Smoothly "raked" gravel | | A fortune teller |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_135931.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1221.jpg) | There are thousands of the orange gates at this shrine | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_140635_1.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_140730.jpg) | | | Throw in a coin, maike a wish, pick up the stone. If it feels light, your wish may be granted |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_140901.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_141954.jpg) | Most temples had a little ritual washing area | | A bamboo shoot |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_142657.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1223.jpg) | Another one, just poking it's head out of the ground | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1230.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_144901.jpg) | There are miles of paths with little shrines along the side | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_152144.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_153016.jpg) | Outside of the shrine are the food stalls. Kenny had orange juice, Eric had grilled meat | | A really interesting star-shaped lincoln log type building |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_153316.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1231.jpg) | This was by far my favorite street food - fish shaped pancakes filled with either red bean paste or a custard paste. Extremely tasty! | | Octopus fritters. I didn't try them, but they were for sale everywhere |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180414_154521.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1234.jpg) | I waited here while Eric and the kids went to a cat cafe | | The manager of the cat cafe |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1237.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_112934.jpg) | | | A day trip to Nara, and our first views of the famous Nara deer |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1260.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_113334.jpg) | They clustered around the spots where tourists could buy deer biscuit | | Once you'd bought the biscuits, the deer got a little aggressive! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_113350.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1267.jpg) | Run away, run away! | | The deer grabbed this map from me and ran away with it. Another tourist grabbed it back for me |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_121010.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_115836.jpg) | This volunteer guide talked with us for quite a while about the sights in Nara. He had worked in London for 10 years, in the securities business | | The deer will bow for food if you prompt them |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_121236.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1272.jpg) | Lots of pretty little canals running through the park and temple grounds | | At the Kasuga-taisha shrine, known for it's stone lanterns |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_130244.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_131349.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1276.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_131533.jpg) | | | There were many tourists, but you could also get off the beaten track fairly easily |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1282.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1284.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1289.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1292.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1297.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_133041.jpg) | Deer feeding time | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1304.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_134751.jpg) | Practicing the bowing | | The sign says "There are no public trash cans. Please take your own trash with you." This is true - there were really NO public trash cans. But still no litter. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_135001.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_140154.jpg) | An ice cream vending machine | | Most temples had a little rest area with benches, usually with red cloths on them. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_140509.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_140419.jpg) | This building was made from logs cut in a triancular shape, assembled log cabin style | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_141052.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_141231.jpg) | A dragon protects this fountain | | A nice view from this temple |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_142050.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_142125.jpg) | This bench was made without nails or screws | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_142641.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_143328.jpg) | In another little rest area. This one actually offered free hot tea, and was heated as well | | A beautiful set of steps. These long sets of steps were frequently challenging, because each step was taller than normal |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_143721.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1311.jpg) | A stream on the way to the temple Todai-ji | | Todai-ji Buddhist temple, with the world's largest brass Buddha statue |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1316.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1326.jpg) | There were a group of older people in bright yellow windbreakers who were volunteer guides to the temple. One of them (a former femployee of Komatsu) was showed us around and was very friendly. This is a diagram of how the bronze statue was cast | | Peter lit a candle |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1331.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1332.jpg) | The main Buddha statue | | A side statue - one of the gods maybe? |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_152607.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_153027.jpg) | Crawling through a hole at the base of a pillar. Supposedly it's the same size as a nostril of the Buddha statue, and if you are able to crawl through, you attain enlightenment! | | Eric lit some incense at the temple |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_153358.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_160059.jpg) | | | On the main road back to the station was a building demonstrating techniques to avoid earthquake damage. Kenny is sitting in this chair that is programmed to shake at the same strength as some of the recent earthquakes |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1348.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180415_162642.jpg) | | | The building itself models earthquake building techniques. Below ground level, you can see the shock-absorbers. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1350.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1354.jpg) | At the shopping arcade next to the station. We went to a McDonalds here. The cheeseburgers and hamburgers are the same as in the US, the chicken burger was definitely different. | | At the Kiyomizu-dera temple |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_105639.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_110353.jpg) | We thought this monster statue looked like the demogorgon in the tv show Stranger Things | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_112112.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_112011.jpg) | These men were prepping the bark to rebuild the cypress bark roof of the temple. It was an amazing amount of work for each bit of bark | | This is the bark as it came to them |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1358.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1360.jpg) | Statues with red bibs on them. These may represent Jizo, a Buddhist saint. | | The road leading north from Kiyomizu-dera. Full of tourist stores, but very interesting. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_120028.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1362.jpg) | A soap store - the soap was actually squishy! | | Amazing - this tiny, very Japanese looking stores is actually a Starbucks! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1363.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_123046.jpg) | There was another Starbucks sign higher up on the building. Overall, very easy to miss. | | Two geishas |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_124339.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_125514.jpg) | A view into a lovely tea shop | | Peter had lots of fun feeding the pidgeons at Maruyama Park |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1367.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_125631.jpg) | There were also some feral cats there, which would occasionally make little runs at the pidgeons | | He enticed them to come up on his leg, but once they did, it was maybe too close! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_133038.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_133402.jpg) | Nice bench, but the top was so slick you couldn't lean back and support yourself on your hands, because they would slip | | The Shoren-in Monzeki temple. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_133708.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_1376.jpg) | Some very impressive beams supporting the temple entrance | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_134019.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_134648.jpg) | There was a massive scaffolding structure for a rebuild of the roof | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_134714.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_134921.jpg) | Many 1, 5, and 10 yen coins were scattered about | | The woodworking on the walkway built to route around the building project was very well done. You can barely see the join in the wood here. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_135314.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_135553.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_142035.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_142403.jpg) | | | Back out the temple |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_151417.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_155306.jpg) | Very impressive stonework on the floor of the temple entrance | | This is at Okazaki park. We knew something was goinig on, but couldn't figure out what |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_155726.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180416_160100.jpg) | Turned out to be an antique car show | | Peter had more fun with the pidgeons |
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| ![](/Pictures/2018/04-01-2018-japan/kyoto/gallery_img_20180417_102729.jpg) | | | I like what the AirBnB owner did with the crumbly concrete around the entryway - just putting these black pebbles around it makes it look much better | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |