Fushimi Inari Shrine, is located withing very short walking distance from the Inari station ( 2 stops away from Kyoto station ).
Pic 1: Shops selling lunch boxes at Kyoto JR station
Pic 2: Train to Inari
Pic 3: Inari station
Pic 4: Building opposite Fushimi Inari Shrine
Pic 5: Huge torii gate at the entrance of Fushimi Inari Shrine
Pic 6: 2nd torii gate at the entrance of Fushimi Inari Shrine
Pic 7: Hand washing area
Pic 8: Fushimi Inari Shrine
Pic 9: Another torii gate. More to come
Pic 10: The start to the endless torii gate path. Just imagine the size of this torii gate
Pic 11: More torii gate.
Pic 12: Where does this path lead to?
Pic 13: Business names?
Pic 14: Where does it end?
Pic 15: Still do not see the end after 10mins of walk
Pic 16: Finally came to an open ground. Barely 5% of the Torii trail.
Pic 17: Start of the next section of the torii gates
Pic 18: After 20 minutes, we seem lost but continued on with the hike.
Pic 19: Came to a pond and passed a number of mounds. Decided to move on.
Pic 20: More of the gates at Fushimi Inari shrine
Pic 21: Finally after close to 1hour of hike + picture taking, we reach this sign. We are at the big "dot" as highlighted in the map. If we turn right, it will lead us up the mountain to the loop. As it was getting dark we decided return back by using the other route.
Pic 22: Looking straight ahead, that would be the path leading uphill.
Pic 23: Came across few houses on the way downhill
Pic 24: Japanese house on the way to JR train station
Pic 25: Japanese house on the way to JR train station
Pic 26: Japanese house on the way to JR train station
Pic 27: After 30 mins, we finally made it to the foot of the hill
We left Kyoto around 7pm and took the JR back to Namba station. There we went to Dotonbori street. I wonder why I did not come to this place earlier since it is only a 15-20minutes walk from our hotel.
Pic 28: Dotonbori Street
Pic 29: Excellent Ramen
Pic 30: The expression says it all
Pic 31: The Best ramen shop. Seriously... thats what is written on the sign and attracted us into the shop.
Pic 32: You will need to order through the vending machine and pass the ticket to the waitress.
Pic 33: Dotonbori Street
Pic 34: Another ramen shop on Dotonbori Street. We came here the next day.
We walk around until we reach Takashimaya. Isn't the building structure interesting? Kind of remind me of Paris. After that we walk back to our hotel.
Pic 35: Takashimaya at Namba
