15 September 2019 – Day 24 – Fushimi Inari Shrine
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Today is day 3 of our Kyoto adventure and today we head to Fushimi Inari Shrine and Nara for the deers! ⛩⛩🦌🦌 We always have this awesome plan the night before to leave the hostel by 8am to beat the crowds but the best we’ve done is 10:30am!
We arrive at Fushima Inari Shrine and looks like the masses has beat us once again! As we stroll through the smaller torii gates there wasn’t even space to swing your arms as you waddle through with the sea of people ⛩⛩⛩. Locals and tourists alike, families, kids, prams and umbrellas flocked the site on sunny Sunday 👪 👒🎒🌂. Could NOT deal, and this was not about to be my memory and experience of one of Japan’s most popular sites!!
We escape with haste and head an hour south to Nara instead to see hoards of deers instead of people. Legend has it that the diety enshrined in the temple rode to Nara on a sacred deer. The deers were then seen as sacred and helpers of good. And very hungry helpers at that I’d have to say, as they nibble and reached out for any cracker they saw, even my shirt and got a few bites in the bum. Nonetheless they were a harmless and fun bunch!! 🦌🌳🦌🌳🦌🌳
We head back into Fushimi Inari Shrine late in the afternoon and the crowds have significantly died down. Note this place is open 24/7 so pick your timing better than what we did this morning! Certainly was a much better experience now that we can walk through and appreciate the torii gates and hike up Mt. Inari ⛩⛩.
We make it up halfway to the viewpoint to catch the golden sun set behind the mountains before making our way up to the top shrine. Inari is the Shinto god of rice, and you would also notice statues of foxes around the area which were thought to be his messengers. 🦊🦊
We make our way down through the dimly lit torii gates under the night sky back to our hostel where we start to pack our things. Tonight we leave Kyoto and catch a 8hr night bus at 10pm to get to Hiroshima!! 🚌🌃🌃
Music:
Sound Surfer – Constellations
Jorm – Sunset
Tobu – Rollercoaster
Nana & Marin – OK
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