Kyoto

                                          

                                             Kyoto's interesting places to see

After the post about Tokyo, I said I would make one about Kyoto. And here we are. Kyoto is also a very beautiful city, with traditional gardens, temples, shrines... I like this city because it got such a nice traditional japanese culture vibe and landscapes. 

Places to visit :

                                            Kinkakuji

This temple, called Kinkakuji (kin = gold in Japanese), this is the golden temple. It's very beautiful to see, especially late in the afternoon when the sunset appears and makes the gold color shines out of this little beautiful japanese temple.

                                        Fushimi Inari

                                             

 

This is Fushimi Inari shrine, there is a small bridge (picture 2) but there is also a very beautiful road to walk on, which is a road surrounded by torii gates (picture 1) and it must be so pretty to see while walking around this area. Feels very traditional japanese-ish like.

                                   Tetsugaku No Michi

Tetsugaku no michi (Philosopher's path) is a road located in Kyoto, with two sides, and water in the middle (see pic above). The two sides of the roads, are surrounded by beautiful cherry blossoms trees. Better visit Tetsugaku no michi's place when there is cherry blossoms time in Japan. 

                                       Ginkakuji

                                         

We saw the Kinkakuji (gold temple) and now this is Ginkakuji (silver temple) "Gin" means silver in Japanese. Well, as you can see, the temple is not really silver colored, but it is still a nice place to visit, the traditional garden around the Ginkakuji with lot of trees, bridges etc is a must to see. But I still think Kinkakuji (golden temple) is prettier :3

Pontocho 

                                           

                                              

Pontocho is a small traditional-like Japanese road, I recommand to visit it only at night or late evening, when there is no sun at all, as it's very pretty at night with the lights and all (see pictures above). Better visit it after sunset, than during day time, it's just not the same. 

Maruyama Park

Maruyama park is located in Kyoto. This park is popular for its HUGE cherry tree. Cherry blossoms are very beautiful, and this tree is very big and many cherry leaves/blossoms located in that tree. Very beautiful. I recommand to visit that park only during CHERRY BLOSSOMS time in Japan, otherwise the huge tree is less beautiful when there is no cherry blossoms on it. 

                                         Kiyomizu Dera

                                               

And finally, this is the temple Kiyomizu Dera. Another traditional temple with beautiful gardens, a vibe of "zen" and serenity/prosperity in places like these. 

This is the end of my post about Kyoto. Feel free to tell me in the comments below if I forgot some places to visit in Kyoto. Anyways, Kyoto is very very different from Tokyo, it's more traditional whereas Tokyo is more on the modern and even futuristic vibe. But I like both cities! They're very different from each other, but they both have their beauty. Oneday, when I'll visit Japan, Tokyo and Kyoto are definetely the 2 cities I wanna visit the most there!