08/04/10 Thursday: Kyoto
Today you take the fabled Shinkansen, the superfast train Tokyo-Kyoto, clean, luxurious, spacious, and so firm in spite of the speed that we could build a castle card inside. The trip lasts two hours, but relatively little weight thanks to spacious and comfortable armchairs. We arrive Kyoto and miraculously the sun shines, that will assist us throughout the day. Outside the station (a huge and filled with every kind of tourist shop) trying to figure out how to move to see as much as possible without going mad to see the subway. Just outside the station, the idea of \u200b\u200bwinning Phil: rent a bike! Turning our attention that there actually were several places where we can do (even in Nara), we simply followed the signs of the first we've seen, ending in a small parcheggino family, where the Japanese girl daughter of the owner (she had her tits ! One of the few Jappe tits!) gave us bikes, and extremely kind has drawn on the map a possible path to follow to see all the most important. Let's start, the first stage the Toji temple, near the station, and now we can make a good impression with bikes: we see a beautiful cabin that looks like a bike stand, and quietly parked inside, except that we are called to be a policeman kindly tells us that we parked at the police station (which has a space for bikes, many police officers ride bicycles) .. great figure! Move the bike in the parking lot of the temple, we make the entrance fee and enter into a stunning complex of religious buildings and a high pagoda, all surrounded by flower gardens. Not bad for being the first stage, quindi ripartiamo e ci dirigiamo alla seconda tappa, fondamentale ma lontana, ovvero il tempio dove son state girate alcune scene di “Memorie di una Geisha”. Per la strada ci fermiamo in un altro complesso di tempi, passiamo attraverso un passaggio a livello (come quello dei manga!), un ponticciolo di legno, poi finalmente arriviamo nell’immenso complesso che tra tempi, corridoi, statue, si estende per tutta la montagna. Ovviamente l’attrazione principale sono i corridoi (lunghi fino a 4 km) di tori rossi di legno. Camminare in un percorso di tori rossi è una sensazione da un lato rilassante, dall’altro strana, però assolutamente da fare. Ovviamente avevamo frettissima (concentrare Kyoto in un giorno è impresa Epic) just for me but next time leave me a whole day to walk through all the bull and get into the spirit of meditation.
We stopped in some tourist stands selling including a kimono, yukata etc. used and summer, and with reasonable prices, and everyone throws in some typical purchase.
reluctantly leave this beautiful area to go to the crowded temple, whose entrance is preceded by a street that sells travel absolutely every kind of modern gadgets and not on old times. This temple is called the temple on the air because a species built on stilts standing on a crest of a hill. The view of the tempio e dal tempio è meravigliosa, ovviamente vialetti e scalinate con tripudio di fiori di ciliegi, tantissimi jappi vestiti con gli abiti tipici. Il tempo stringe, quindi passiamo attraverso un quartiere di case da te di legno, fini ed eleganti, riusciamo a intravedere da lontano probabilmente una maiko che sta rientrando, finiamo in una via sempre di case da te ma ultra turistica, tanto che siam costretti a scendere dalla bici per farci strada tra la folla, poi mega scarpinata in bici verso il castello, ex sede dell’imperatore, che però chiudendo alle cinque, l’ultima entrata è per le quattro mezza (e noi siam arrivati alle cinque rosicate). Poco male, ci vedremo l’interno del cortile dalla torre di osservazione di Kyoto, we go after leaving the bike and thanked his father kind of girl. Admire the tower from the time we visited, we relax, Alberto manages to make you laugh all Jappe including women-lift (in the uniform of course) a fake out on the floor restaurant (where the elevator stops before to reach the ground floor), and even women-lift are not fake, but they can feel emotions. Take the train to go home and think about how to organize the future. The thought that he could skip the Ghibli Museum saddened me a bit, 'so even though rumors were saying that to be booked months in advance, and that the reservation without the support of a Japanese would be impossible to decide to feel the same when they returned to Tokyo.
Reservations are made through the machines in conjunction Lawson. Machines in Japan. Then ask the clerk (hat-samurai) if he can do it.
could not be easier, asks us when we want to go, and discover that there are vacancies (even choice between morning and afternoon) the next day, then our names in kanji translates for us, please fill in all the pay and gives us the reservation tickets.
For the series seemed so difficult, but it did succeed very well. Obviously, it was straight to where you could make reservations Lawson was essential, so thank Rando for giving us the inspiration!
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