Is Kyoto Overrated? 🇯🇵

Our travels in Kyoto continue as we begin the day at the Imperial Palace, the former palace of the Emperor of Japan before the capital city moved to Tokyo following the Meiji Restoration in 1869. We explore the many grand wooden buildings built out of the incredibly strong cypress tree before venturing through the Emperor’s beautiful Japanese water garden. After a short pit stop in a Japanese tea room we cycle Kotobike’s along the river to the legendary Fushimi Inari Shrine, world famous for its hundreds of torii gates. Fuelled up on sushi, we walk through the many gates to the top of the mountain which appears at the end of a dark forest path.
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Day two in Kyoto and we’re now at the Imperial Palace which is basically where the Imperial family the emperor used to live until 1869 during the medi restoration so the old capital used to be in Kyoto and then in 1869 it moved to Tokyo this is Bally where the old Emperor’s Imperial family

Used to live yes Silly’s very hot you’re looking very Japanese aren’t you I have nothing to say let’s explore the palace this is the Great Hall which I don’t think we’re allowed in do anything is what that that’s the Great Hall the banquet hall how do you know that I said outside

Oh so either it doesn’t say or I’m not reading it usually one of the two all these strong wooden buildings you see are made out of Cyprus Tree Cyprus Tree Cyprus s tree um which is obviously very very strong wood I know we just saying I can’t believe it

Lasts so long yeah which is how it’s able to kind of be in such good condition for hundreds of years look at this building the Hall of the Sacred mirror sounds like something out Harry Potter not the mirror of era said should we start going to Harry Potter mode again not

Again the living quarters of the emperor the C Oden Japanese Water Gardens are just too epic they’re so peaceful aren’t they they [Applause] are ancient Japanese football pure possession no goals legendary how somehow we got forc to come in here yeah we got tripped inside didn’t

We dly needs her coffee or she doesn’t function well in the day is it good they not good you don’t like you’re too happy with It what’s wrong of it I’ve balls what have you ordered let me try something it’s co it’s Coca-Cola red it’s Coca-Cola with milk yeah there nothing special is it it’s not awful though it’s not awful so how relaxing are these Japanese t-s list to this music it’s just like the music

Is nice I could just got a bed on the floor seiz V bed on the floor we’re back on our favorite okay cutle bikes unlock we got a short 7 km Journey to our next destination which might be the most famous place in Koto there you go you’re

A natural I’m getting better at Hope it’ll be a nice Scenic ride there’s a there’s a huge spider here no one clearly no one really uses these only we’re crazy enough to do this okay I’m ready all right let’s go we got our rout

25 minutes in a car so 40 minutes for us probably you good what happened it’s like to run forward I stop we’re going to die these river systems have got to be my favorite thing about Kyoto I think it’s just so so peaceful down here everyone’s sitting on the bank fishing having some

Food what day is it Friday yes it’s so nice down here isn’t it so nice all these lovely wooden buildings oh gosh it’s it’s really hard work guys it’s really hot I can some last I think we might have arrived judging by these crowds the day another Sushi picnic in

The car park we’ve left our bikes and we’ve left the tourist area to have some lunch we got veg Sushi we got tuna we got salmon we got these weird chicken rice balls so I don’t really know what they are but they’re cheap a bucket of

Soy and then Ginger Wasabi and all of this in our favorite Supermarket life cost about10 yeah I also got Coke as well I betrayed myself this probably won’t be the last time you see us do this in Japan we’re going to eat all of this now

Before we head to the very special shm Ryan good also everyone’s coming in and out of the supermarket that’s actually not on there right now but oh there we go they look when they’re like what the hell they’re like what are these absolute Sushi crack fiends doing in the corner of the car

Park here we are Fushimi Inari which translates in Japanese to tourist hell hole that was quite funny you like that one yeah wow all right we made it to the entrance now look at this we’ve navigated our way through the crowds and to be fair this is pretty impressive I love the

Colors no animals here sorry you have turn around oh that is a good one this is the most important Inari shine which is the god of rice in Japan in Japan most important Shrine for the god of rice wasn’t the best worded sentence ever but we’re going to go with

It um the god of rice the god of rice there’s millions of them AR there there are millions of gates for millions of tourists it’s nice with the sunlight I know it’s nice isn’t it so this path of Tory Gates leads to mount anari and the sacred Forest below it Pit Stop

Whole lot of gates so anari is the Shinto God of rice and foxes are her Messengers is why you see a lot of fox statues around here and foxes in real life and foxes in real life they have foxes in Japan they do don’t they yeah um I think they’re a bit

Nicer than the foxes we see in London they’re probably like wild I mean all foxes are wild but you know like proper nice ones yeah soft nice ones lives in the woods and don’t live out of bins getting steep now time for you to take the bag again yeah probably our best

Interests we were not expecting this well I wasn’t I bet it was I don’t think it’ll be this s don’t know how many gates we’ve gone through I think there’s like more than 10,000 in total something like That 20 minutes to go I’m going to see these gates in my dreams tonight it does feel a bit like weird doesn’t it it’s trippy it’s a bit like Mario Kart it’s like a Mario Kart is it’s like that Mario Kart game and Universal to be fair this will make a

Good Mario Kart track it would Nintendo if you’re watching this make it happen these foxes with their little bibs on what’s in their mouth don’t know like a bit of wood it’s quite creepy around here now getting dark isn’t it lots of big spiders and huge

Webs I think we’re nearly here oh gosh every time I think that I just see more more more orange but this girl ahead of us is wearing heels like this big I I mean not why I not in shorts oh God am I in I think this is it Ed this the

Top this the top yeah who made it really hot that was good though you got a coin no oh maybe in my bag I’ve got have every bag we own huh I’m slightly disappointed there’s no view yeah but we made it that’s the important thing one side pockets cuz

This place is special I’m going to give them a 50 aming people he we walk the way the hill for it yeah they should be paying us they can’t give us there they be nice they should be paying us my usual one look at this within shine see why this place is

So special now and now we all the way back down it’s a wild Japanese cat fat cat one sorry good cat she s we’ve made it to the bottom what’ you make it that you know what I actually once I was said to myself this is a 40

Minute climb I had to go over it I was okay I just wasn’t expecting it at all I thought when we went up the first gate and came back that was it and then it was like this is 40 minute clim and I was like yeah I was when we got here like

There was so many tourists down at the bottom I was like and he was L running I was like is this going to be another bamboo forest but it was really actually like peaceful and nice once you got high up the mountain and kept walking it was yeah really

Good we teleported from the shrine to the center of Kyoto where we’re now going to get some dinner and go to bed we’re not going to take you to dinner with us um so that ends this this video our time in Kyoto is over it’s over and we might swing back here at

Some point we’ll see I feel like there is still more stuff we need to do but there’s so much to do it’s quite overwhelming like when you look at what to do there are so many shines so many temples yeah and we haven’t really figured out yet so yeah we might come

Back yeah some of them going to be like really amazing that we’ve missed that on so maybe we’ll come back maybe not um it’s been a good time here anyway uh my highlight I don’t know it’s between the 10 and the many Tory gated Shrine today I I’ll probably give it to

The Tory gated just it was a really just it was a bit longer the temple was quite quick wasn’t it oh mine’s definitely going to um the the golden temple yeah fair I really like that as well um anyway we’re going to get food go to bed uh so thanks for watching drop

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