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#CatTravels: Temples galore in Kyoto

By Catherine Toth Fox • April 21, 2012 • #CatTravels

You can’t go to Kyoto and not see a temple.

Even if you were trying to avoid them.

We toured four temples yesterday — mostly by cab, some by foot — and didn’t have time to see any others.

So we chose carefully, ditching the touristy (but stunning) Kinkaku-ji and opted for the ones with something interesting — like a grand hall with 1,001 armed statues or a trail lined with hundreds of huge, red sacred gates.

And temples with food nearby.

So here’s what my second day in Kyoto looked like:

Breakfast

Breakfast
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We didn't have much time, so I quickly grabbed breakfast — meaning, this bag of Pizza Potato chips — from Family Mart and headed out to see temples.

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8 Comments

  • Reply Old Man April 21, 2012 at 6:54 pm

    I can just hear Trevor saying
    Not that Green Stuff for me.” Ha ha ha
    Have Fun Everyone….

    • Reply Catherine Toth April 28, 2012 at 2:53 am

      LOL! He did!

  • Reply M April 21, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    Great Pixs Cat!

  • Reply David Jackson April 22, 2012 at 3:31 am

    I love picture 24 for its quality of lighting. It is truly wonderful.

  • Reply zzzzzz April 23, 2012 at 9:31 am

    Is the shave is shop a sign of Hawai’i in Japan, or is shave ice in Hawai’i a legacy brought over by immigrants from Japan?

  • Reply Melissa April 23, 2012 at 9:39 am

    I should have left some giant ziplock bags with you so you could buy & bring home dried stuff! Those items looked interesting!

  • Reply KAN April 25, 2012 at 8:41 am

    Shave ice originated in Japan (and the Philippines – halohalo). It’s called “kakegori.” The version with green tea ice cream and jello – ujikinton – is a Kyoto specialty since the Uji tea-growing region is just south of Kyoto.

    Those veggie-flavored candies are throat lozenges (“nodokan”).

    • Reply Catherine Toth April 28, 2012 at 2:45 am

      I KNOW! Derek told me that. He read the packaging and laughed that we thought they were candy! HAHAHAHA!

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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