Day 7 was another busy day! We took the local train to Fushimiinara Taisha which is a shrine with endless orange torii gates. There was a hike up through all of the orange gates. The gates were interesting because they were made of wood and on some, you could see the rotting.
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After the orange gates, we started a walking tour of SE Kyoto. Our first stop was at Tainai-meguri, very interesting - it was a pitch black walk in a small building. Next, we walked to Kiyonizu-Derea which is a temple full of fun activities...
Rob tried to test his strength...
...and she did too.
At the temple, Rob and Julie tried the Love Stone walk, "...if you walk safely from this stone to the other with your eyes closed, once, your wish will be granted soon. If you can't, it will be long before your love is realized. And it is said taking advice requires you to have someone who will help you achieve your love."
Rob, confidently doing the Love Stone walk. Everyone clapped once he reached the rock.
Julie had a cool "kick" while trying to find the rock. A nice gentleman helped her.
School kids, excited about finding the rock with their eyes closed.
The boy was way off...and so was the girl, she almost ran into me (I love how she's protecting her glasses). It's OK, they are young!
There was also a wish fountain at the temple. Drink from it, your wish will come true.
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We then walked down Ishibei-koji, one of Kyoto's "single most attractive streets". The streets were stone-paved. There were older style homes and it was very clean...cute!
He delivered newspapers! Very cute.
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We decided to get ice cream because we were hot. And since we were in Japan, we tried Green Tea ice cream! Julie, Dave and I disliked it (Julie and I only ate the vanilla part on the twist)...Rob was the only one that "liked" it. :) Glad we tried it, will never have it again.
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We saw a lot of people and tourists hanging out on a couple of streets so went to check it out. It turned out to be the Gion district - Geisha are known to (possibly) come out at night. I spoke with a local and he said it is rare but possible. The area was like paparazzi because there were tons of people waiting with their cameras.
Waiting on the street for Geisha to come out.
Oh my gosh, there is a geisha coming out right by us!!
So what are you supposed to do? Run after it of course. After, I felt bad for running after the Geisha with a camera because it wasn't being respectful to the individual.
We actually saw at least three Geisha's (picture on top of today's post is another one). Notice the crowds of people around them taking pictures.
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On Day 7, we took 25K+ Julie steps.
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