Album: 2012 japan studytour public:part 7: Kyoto | |
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Travel to Kyoto. |
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Trains stop in defined positions, you know where each dor will be located. |
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Groceries are sold at the train |
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Scenary from the train |
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Waiting pupils sit down in Japan. |
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Arriving at the Myorenji temple (busstop Horikawa Teranouchi), our accommodation for the next days. |
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The entrance area |
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Massive wooden plate |
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The stone on the left could be seen as a sleeping Buddha |
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These paintings were done with a lot of thinking and planning, taking different ways into account the light is taking when entering the room. |
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A taiko |
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Can you guess what this is? |
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Then we headed to the Kamigamo shrine in the north of Kyoto. |
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Sake bottles, local breweries brought them. |
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The place to perform the cleaning bevore entering the shrine. |
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Ema, used in Shinto shrines. Carrying wishes. |
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Slightly more full with ema.. |
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A path of ants |
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I like those lanterns |
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A building used for storage. In times of high humidity the wood closes the sides automatically for air. |
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Car washing - here not the car moves but the washing equipment. |
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These display when a bus reaches the previous station, making an estimation of arrival possible. |
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Kimonos at the streets of Kyoto |
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The Gion |
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The poster of the Kimono show we were attending later |
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More traditional streets of Kyoto |
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Interesting houses around |
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The street in front of the temple |
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In the evening we went to the bath in the neighborhood. |
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