Nagakando, a small courtyard in Kyoto City
Kyoto is very playable, especially in the suburbs of Kishukukawa Shrine three thousand yuan Arashiyama and further north there are Lake Biwa and Tianqiao, but because of the complexity of the traffic is not suitable for the first time to go to Kyoto small partners
So how do you avoid the crowds and feel the zen of Kyoto for the first time?
What impressed me most was that I had to take off my shoes to enter Nagakudo. I walked barefoot for more than an hour and the soles of my feet were very clean. Many corridors in Nagakudo were open air, indicating that people would clean them every day
Courtyard Bridges, water temples, moss spiral stairs are here and there are not many tourists. Most of them are local people who come to visit. I think it is very comfortable to sit and meditate in the courtyard even on rainy days.
The most missed part of the Kyoto hangover
For a week in Kyoto, we ditched the fast-paced travel of punching cards and leisurely punched in all the shrines and temples we wanted to visit. And one of the most impressive, is unexpectedly punched in the peace Jingu, Peace Jingu is very large, including great Torii, Ying Tianmen, Morikon Island, Great pole Hall and God Garden.
Compared to some other old shrines in Kyoto, Heian Shrine is a very young shrine, the architecture style is very significant Tang Dynasty architecture, vermilion walls, green tiles, soft and white stone roads and unique Kyoto sky blue against each other, especially dazzling in the mild sun.
Tickets are not required for Heian Shrine, but if you want to visit the Shrine, you need to buy an additional 600 yen ticket. Personally, I think it is worth a visit. If I remember correctly, the Garden should include the East and West Central South Garden. There are hundreds of different plants in the garden, and there will be signs to mark their origin.
There are also several ponds, mandarin ducks swimming, gliding shallow bottom, reflecting the grass and trees of God Garden. The God Garden in winter is already a very beautiful garden. If it is in the cherry blossom season and red leaf season, it will be more beautiful. When we went, it was already the middle of January, but we also saw the remnants of several red leaves, and when we walked inside, we already felt that there should be four seasons of flowers here, and I believe that there are four seasons of beauty here.
The day we went was very lucky, the sky was blue, the temperature was still warm in the middle of January, and we met a newlywed couple wearing kimonos to take wedding photos, in short, everything was just right, just happy.
Kyoto rare scenic spot share - Kotaiji Temple
Walk south from the Yasaka Shrine, past the Oomuwon and then east, past the Taisosaka. The moment you walk from the noisy Gion to the empty Kotai Temple, your heart becomes quiet.
Takataiji Temple is a very traditional Japanese courtyard with a front yard with dry mountains and water, and a back yard with a borrowed view of the mountains and water. One of the biggest differences between Japanese gardens and Chinese gardens is green. Unlike Chinese gardens, which use flowers to adorn colors, Japanese gardens show different colors through leaves throughout the year. Maple trees in summer show a very high saturation of tender green, which is very novel.
The ticket costs 600, and you can even look at the tower of the Big Cloud Courtyard after walking through the ticket counter. Kotai Temple is Tokugawa Ieyasu to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wife Ningning built, built at the beginning to please Toyotomi's deceased ministers to the utmost luxury, in the spirit of the roof shed mottled painting can be seen the luxury of that year.
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