Kyoto - Mount Inari Shopping Mall Temple, Japan (Center on Interactive Map)

An old temple complex that has been converted into a tourist shopping mall.

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Trips

Japan

3/1/2024: More ultra-touristy sites in Kyoto, we woke up before dawn to walk around in a bunch of orange gates and temples. The gates and temples used to be a religious place, but now it is overrun with tourists, even at 6:30 in the morning and cold and rainy. There are a bunch of knick-knack shopping, beer vending machines, and restaurants on the trail and next to the shrines. There is even a bamboo forest there, but none of the tourists seem to know about that one.

For some unknown reason, a local man drove up to us on the street next to the shrine to gift us two plastic bags full of origami balls, not sure what that was about.







Previous Visit (Kyoto - Imperial Palace: 2/29/2024)
Next Visit (Kasai Rinkai Park: 3/1/2024)

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