The Arashiyama Bamboo Grove is a delightful walking experience near Kyoto. It is a pleasant uphill walk surrounded by very tall bamboo. Like all Kyoto destinations, it can be very crowded.
Talk about crowded! The Fushimi-Inari-Taisha Shrine is better known as the "Thousand Torii." Torii are those tall red-orange gates that define Japan. At this location outside Kyoto more than a thousand torii are lined up for walks up a gentle hill. The torii near the start are very tall and thick, like those shown above. Further on, the torii are thinner. The crowds were so dense I cut out about halfway through.
The temple of Emperor Go-Shirakawa was built in 1164 east of Kyoto. The temple, Sanjūsangen-dō, holds 1,001 statues of Kannon, the Buddhist goddess of compassion. It is a very impressive sight. Photographs are not permitted inside, so I bought a postcard and photographed it.
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