Found this place in Gion on our way home. This might possibly be the best museum in Kyoto.
Awesome sign must mean awesome museum
Best museum ever!
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Kyoto – Arashiyama
The southern part of Arashiyama was greatly affected by the flooding caused by the typhoon a day before our arrival. This made the Hozu-gawa river look more like Ganges than a clean and beautiful river. However, the people working and living around the river all worked hard to restore everything. Our landlord, Rico-san told us that it would probably take about a month before everything was back to normal.
The first stop on our tour of Arashiyama was the Tenryu temple. To begin with, we visited the dharma Hall which had a very cool painting in the ceiling picturing a huge Cloud-dragon. Because one of the dragon’s eyes was painted right in the centre of the large circle surrounding the dragon, it looked like it was looking right at you wherever you were in the room. After the dragon painting, we went for a stroll in the beautiful garden.
Exiting the Tenryu garden, we found ourselves in a bamboo forest.
Me in the beautiful yet mosquito infested bamboo forest
After the bamboo forest, we paid a visit to the garden of the famous samurai actor Okochi Sanso. Apparently, he wasn’t a samurai that also did some acting but an actor playing the role of a samurai. His garden was absolutely gorgeous and the entry fee also covered a cup of matcha + sweet, yum!
Matcha. and sweet :D
The samurai garden
After the garden, we went to look for monkeys in the nearby park. Unsuccessful in our search, we resorted to the backup plan, namely visiting the Arashiyama Monkey Park. It’s home to around 200 japanese snow monkeys and for ¥500 we entered the park and climbed the monkey mountain. At the top, we even got to feed them!
Cool tree on our way up the mountain. The roots were huge!
In Kyoto!
Since I’m spending the next three weeks in Japan, I won’t be able to give you much sewing related updates. So if you’re not interested in reading about Japan, I suggest you check back in a few weeks.
We’ve been busy exploring the last couple of days so my documentation is lagging a bit behind. After a long flight (~12h), we got on a shinkansen (really fast train) that took us from Tokyo station to Kyoto in less than 3h. After settling in at the house we’ve rented and eating a bento-box from the nearby combini (convenient store), we spent the rest of the evening resting.
The next day, we started exploring the nearby area. It didn’t take long to find the first temple, Kiyomizu-dera temple. I had no idea that the temple area would be so big! I don’t remember what it was called but there was this cool building you could go down into (after taking your shoes off). When we reached the bottom of the stairs, it was completely dark and we had to hold on to a railing in order to walk forward. After a while we reached a holy stone and while holding a hand on it, we made a wish.
Kiyomizu-dera temple
In the evening we went looking for food and found ourselves in a pizzeria. Apparently, japanese pizza looks like nothing I’ve seen before. It contained potato, carrot, broccoli, cauliflower, minced meat, parma ham and shimeiji mushrooms. It was very delicious!
Wedding day
After 7 years together, me and my prince charming got married! It was a lovely ceremony and we’re glad so many of our friends and family could be there to celebrate with us. As per request, here are some photos from the wedding!
It’s raining pigeon fodder (rice)!
The lovely bouquet, made by my aunt!
Jacket to wear over the wedding dress – Finished!
Big day today and I just finished the jacket. After checking out the assortment in several bridal shops, I realized that my puffy sleeve madness actually looked good in comparison. Which means that buying something wasn’t an option. With that said I knew that I just had to “make it work”. With some modifications, the jacket now looks decent enough to wear. In a different fabric, I reckon it could actually look rather good.
Ironically, the sun is shining and it’s 20 degrees outside which means that I probably no longer need this jacket.
Yuki Clothing 