Philosopher’s Path is a stone path on a canal that skirts a residential neighborhood on the outer edge of the Higashiyama district. My google research promised the path would be filled with adorable artisan shops and local restaurants perfect for a pit stop, all the while an easy on/off route to temple hopping. Do you […]
Most of Kyoto looks like an average Japanese city, filled with modern, concrete buildings tied together by jumbles of telephone wires. So it wasn’t exactly a shock when we stepped off the train from Tokyo to a scene like this, just a regular day with people going about their business, like any other city. But […]
Kiyomizu temple, the Eiffel tower of Kyoto If you’re like most travelers, you’ve probably seen a dramatic photo like this one of Kyoto’s Kiyomizu temple, perched in the trees like a bird’s nest, and thought, I must go there. That is, until the bus drops you off at the bottom of the hill and you […]
Kiyomizu is a great area to shop for traditional Kyoto artisan goods— you may have read about the great textile pouches we found in our last post here. But there are lots of other great artisans in the Kiyomizu area worth exploring. (more…)
