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Kyoto: Fushimi Inari

Posted on 18. Apr, 2004 @ 10:35 am by harvey in Culture Views: 166

I found a cool place in Kyoto the other day.

I had some free time (not a common occurrence…) so I ran into a bookstore and picked up a travel guide about Kyoto and saw some cool pics, checked the name, and headed out.

I ended up in this place, Fushimi Inari (more)

Fushimi Inari is famous for it’s 1000 Torii gates. Actually, I think there are many more than 1000. If you check this map you can see that the gates run all up through the mountains. It was written that to go the entire course it would take two hours! I didn’t have much time, so I only walked through for about 30 minutes, but it’s really cool. Highly recommended!

Also, throughout the Fushimi Inari area, around all the temples there are a lot of “kitsune” (fox) statues. I wish I could give you the details of why… but that’s what Google is for right? Ah. Here it is. Inari messengers, foxes, cereals, yeah. Anyway, my friend told me that these statues are actually pretty scary… I suspect they keep the bad things out of the temple and whatnot.

Anyway, this is a cool trip destination. I also saw one of those continuous torii gate places in Awajishima, but as you see by the pics… レベルが違う。

Bye~

-Harvey

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