Kyoto
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Date: 2008.01.28
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 6 items
(40 items total)
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Kyoto Misc
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Date: 2008.01.28
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 6 items
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Tyree Hippo, riding to our next hotel.
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Hey kids, safety first!
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Ellie in the Flying Pig Kyoto
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Imperial palace
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Mega Tomago
Breakfast burger with egg in the Asty Road McDonalds.
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Jelly in the snow. Video, 30 MB.
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Choin-ji
The headquarters of Zen Buddhism.
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Date: 2008.01.30
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 6 items
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Gigantic bronze flower vase, filled with water from the rain.
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Elephant decor, with hooks to string along wire.
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Ellie and I spent a long time trying to figure out why they were wrapping the trees. Ellie thought they were trying to keep them warm.
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Nijo-jo
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Date: 2008.01.30
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 6 items
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The outer gates of the castle.
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The castle itself. The interior was original, including sliding doors, carvings and tatami mats. The nightingale floors are built to be intentionally squeaky to warn of potential intruders.
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Ring my bell
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Stream through the garden outside the tea house.
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Tea Ceremony
Drinking matcha tea and red bean paste
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Tenaku-ji
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Date: 2008.01.30
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 3 items
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No, Jelly, come back!
Ellie walks down a long hallway in the temple
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Three frogs in a fountain, covered with people's spare change.
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More Charlie Brown Buddhas!
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Fushimi Inari
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Date: 2008.01.30
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 9 items
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The gates outside of Fushimi Inari.
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The temple's most famous feature are miles of rows of torii. The gates are only inches apart, so it feels like being in a tunnel.
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The torii went around through a valley and then to the top of a mountain.
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Fushimi Inari is also famous for its fox statues, which watch many of the graves.
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Ellie walking back down the mountain through the torii.
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Jelly drinks water
Which later proved not to be potable.
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Cody packs some for later
Cody saves some of the water for later.
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Gift shops along the path sold mini-torii of various sizes, which visitors leave by the grave sites that line the path.
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Tofuku-ji
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Date: 2008.01.31
Owner: Cody Smith
Size: 4 items
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The main gates, one of the oldest wooden structures in the world, built in 1236.
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Famous zen rock garden.
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Ellie ripple
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Cody ripple
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