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Kay Kicks it in Kyoto Grown-up Kay visits Kyoto
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| Shinkansen from Tokyo | Kyoto Station | Yasaka Shrine, Gion | |
| Gion area streets | Ginkakuji | Eikando | |
| Our luxious ryokan in Gion | Noriko and Bruce briefly visit Uji (see | Kay visits Fushimi Inari while we visit | |
| Arashiyama | |||
| Kay had not visited Kyoto as an adult, nor since her aunt moved to there. She made a good start at seeing important places. | |||
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Nihon August-Sept 2019
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703 _19Aug30-nh19_0933kw Heading for Osaka, entering Tokyo eki, savoring the recently restored old building.  |
704 _19Aug30-nh19_0958bkw Boarding shinkansen "nozomi" at Tokyo eki.  |
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711 _19Aug30-nh19_1322kw Everyone boarding the buses.  |
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712 _19Aug30-nh19_1445bkw Lunch stop; My companions (i.e. N.) want to eat frequently. I am being overfed. I select the lightest item on the menu, cold noodles with lime slices.  |
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714 _19Aug30-nh19_1539akw the fortune: good!  |
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735 _19Aug30-nh19_2223akw The shrine at night.  |
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718 _19Aug30-nh19_1606kw Kenninji Temple  |
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Nihon August-Sept 2019
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743 _19Aug31-nh19_1922_nn Monument to Murasaki Shikibu.  |
744 _19Aug31-nh19_1926_nn The river which figures so prominently in the 10 "Uji" books of Tale of Genji.  |
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Nihon August-Sept 2019
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757 _19Sep01-nh19_1118ckw An inari (fox spirit). Besides the torii this shrine host innumerable inari. The torii thing started long after the shrine was founded.  |
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758 _19Sep01-nh19_1137kw Like her entire generation, Kay had learned of this place via social media. It has long been one of Japan's most photographed sites.  |
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765 _19Sep01-nh19_1705akw The tended bamboo grove, imagery known world wide thanks to social media  |
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