Say “Toji” and a Korean speaker thinks of the word for land, but it is the Japanese reading of 東寺, the temple in the east. It was right by Hatoya, so I popped over for a bit in the morning.
On the way
Nice and quaint.
On the way
Arrived
Nice and roomy.
The temple
Kyoto has temples on this scale all over the place..
The temple
The temple
The temple
The temple
The temple
The temple
The five-storey pagoda
On the way back
You just take a walk around the neighbourhood and it turns out to be a national treasure.. that is how it goes here..
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