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So last weekend we headed back to Kyoto.
I'd been wanting to go back to see some more temples
And do shopping
And I finally managed to get outta bed early enough on a Sunday morning.

So we shinkansen'd out
Tourist Officed it for a really nice hotel

And then headed straight to Nijo-jo ... A pretty palace with pretty gardens ...

After an AMAZING dinner of, believe it or not, deep fried stuff. Pork, creamy beans ... it was so delicious. Mmmmm....

Anyway ... oh yeah ... after that ...

A few times a year, they illuminate some of the temples at night, and so we braved the cold and the crowds and saw the temples in a whole new light. The photos don't do them justice.




Next day we headed out to Inari Fushimi Temple, a temple with 4km of red tori gates which if you look through my photos you'll think I'd taken photo of all 8000! But they really were pretty amazing.




The shrine is populated by tons of stone foxes, and you can buy a fox blessing card to write and offer ... and heres mine!!!





So that was our weekend ... Oh and I left out the shopping part ... thank you's on a postcard.

More photos? Hai!