Photos from My Osaka/Kyoto Trip
I’ve had way too much work this week (damn you, Hibernate) and couldn’t give the blog any attention. Milking the Kyoto travelogue for a whole month is starting to prick my conscience. The busy stre…
I’ve had way too much work this week (damn you, Hibernate) and couldn’t give the blog any attention. Milking the Kyoto travelogue for a whole month is starting to prick my conscience. The busy stre…
The standard Kyoto sightseeing route is probably Kiyomizu-dera / Kinkaku-ji / Ginkaku-ji / Sanjusangen-do. We’d already done our cherry blossom viewing in the morning, so we figured we’d do some si…
Kyoto has such a long history that its traditional cuisine is famous, but a lot of the places go for an upscale concept, so they’re not cheap. Serious gourmets won’t hesitate to spend what it takes…
Here are the photos I took on the way down from the Philosopher’s Path, past Heian Jingu Shrine, to Kyoto City Hall. The whole city is overflowing with cherry blossoms. This is why Kyoto in season is suc…
I spent the weekend in Kyoto. As an office worker who can only travel on weekends, there was no way to time it for peak bloom, but the day was clear and warm and I could really soak up the full feeling of spri…
When I was planning this Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto trip, the very first restaurant I locked in was Il Ghiottone, an Italian place in Kyoto. It’s famous enough that you could call it Kyoto’s number one, and …
Today I’m visiting Seimei Shrine, the main destination of this Kyoto trip. Seimei was a grand master of Onmyodo. He’s a historically significant figure, and he was a hit in the movies too. I hear h…
Dinner was great, so as always we headed off to a dessert place. ^_^ I’d heard there was a café famous for its cakes near Nishiki Market, the so-called “Kitchen of Kyoto,” so we walked there …
While deciding where to go in Kyoto, I settled on Japanese for lunch and Italian for dinner. There’s really only one Italian place that represents Kyoto, so that choice was easy, but there are so many fa…
So here it is, finally my last Kyoto post. ^_^ Having come all the way to Kyoto, I felt I’d been eating pretty carelessly so far, so I went looking for a kamameshi place with a good reputation on Tabelog…
I found out about an interesting place from a blog I often visit. It’s a cake shop in Kyoto called Ghost, and unusually, it sells cakes made with alcohol. The blogger raved that they tasted amazing, so I…
Since hanami was one of the three goals of this trip (the other two being good food and going somewhere I’d never been), here are some cherry blossom photos. The sky was dark, so only a handful came out …