Our second day in Japan started off with a walking tour of Kyoto! We packed up all of our stuff, loaded up the bus and then headed out for a tour that was lead by George Hlawatsch, a professor at Kansai Gaidai University.
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| Cute corgie! |
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| First stop: Sanjusangendo, a huge temple. |
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| Inside the temple are over 1,000 Buddhist statues, each with 40 or so arms. The original temple that was built burned down in 1249 and a new one was built in 1266. That building is still standing today. |
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| Pretty orange gates. |
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| Nature. |
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| I love these orange gates! What a pop of color! |
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| Professor showing us a really old history book he owns. It was pretty darn legit. |
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| Doors. |
We weren't allowed to take any pictures inside, but here are some pictures from Google to give you an idea of just how amazing this place is.
And the walking tour continued...
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| There are thousands of Korean ears and nose buried under there back from the Imjin War! Pretty gross. |
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| Temples abound! This one was built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. |
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| Hello Kitty. |
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| Gates. |
Just keep walking, just keep walking...
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| Up a side street. |
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| Cute little box van. |
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| There are 2 theories about why wood was placed like this in front of houses. 1: to keep dogs from peeing on your house, and 2: to keep homeless people from using your roof as shelter. I like the peeing dog theory. |
It was then off to a Buddhist cemetery.
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| This little kitty kept meowing. He sounded sad. :( |
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Women only have one leg?
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Second half of the day coming next!
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