CTF Gallery

Tyree Hippo, riding to our next hotel.

Hey kids, safety first!

Ellie in the Flying Pig Kyoto

Imperial palace

Mega Tomago

Breakfast burger with egg in the Asty Road McDonalds.

Jelly in the snow. Video, 30 MB.

Gigantic bronze flower vase, filled with water from the rain.

Elephant decor, with hooks to string along wire.

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.

The outer gates of the castle.

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.

Ring my bell

Stream through the garden outside the tea house.

Tea Ceremony

Drinking matcha tea and red bean paste

No, Jelly, come back!

Ellie walks down a long hallway in the temple

Three frogs in a fountain, covered with people's spare change.

More Charlie Brown Buddhas!

The gates outside of Fushimi Inari.

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.

The torii went around through a valley and then to the top of a mountain.

Fushimi Inari is also famous for its fox statues, which watch many of the graves.

Ellie walking back down the mountain through the torii.

Jelly drinks water

Which later proved not to be potable.

Cody packs some for later

Cody saves some of the water for later.

Gift shops along the path sold mini-torii of various sizes, which visitors leave by the grave sites that line the path.

The main gates, one of the oldest wooden structures in the world, built in 1236.

Famous zen rock garden.

Ellie ripple

Cody ripple