Kyoto

Tuesday we took the Shinkansen (bullet train) for the 2 hour 15 minute ride to Kyoto to see some of the ancient temples and shrines. We visited three temples including Kinkakuji, the Golden Temple below.


Most impressive was Sanjūsangendō Temple. A Buddhist temple built in 1266. It contains 1,001 life size statues of the Thousand Armed Kannon which took over 100 years to carve. (There’s no photography allowed inside the temple. The photo below is one somebody scanned from a postcard and posted on the Web.)

Not So Lost

(I had posted this earlier but for some reason it disappered from the blog.)