{"id":12078,"date":"2010-12-25T20:21:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T12:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2010-12-25T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T12:36:22","slug":"day-4-kyoto-yasaka-shrine-maruyama-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/12\/25\/day-4-kyoto-yasaka-shrine-maruyama-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4: Kyoto – Yasaka Shrine & Maruyama Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post-breakfast at Holly\u2019s Caf\u00e9, we took a 10 minute bus ride to Gion District to begin our sojourn that\u2019d lead us eventually to Kiyomizu-dera temple in the late morning. We got off the bus at the intersection between Shijo and Higashioji streets, where the entrance to Ysaka Shrine is.<\/p>\n

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The almost two-story vermilion gate near Shijo Street. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The shrine was very quiet and mostly devoid of visitors. On New Year’s Day though, the Shrine becomes packed with thousands flocking to it to pray for health and prosperity.<\/p>\n

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More autumn late bloomers. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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If we're ever gonna return for a third trip to Japan, die-die must visit in Autumn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stone lanterns with late autumn trees in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Very picturesque.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lanterns on top of us!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Visitors offering early morning prayers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Southern entrance to the Shrine. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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These three rows of lanterns clink against each other charmingly when the wind blows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just past Yasaka Shrine is Maruyama Park, which is according to the guide books a cherry-blossom viewing site in the right seasons.<\/p>\n

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A willowy tree that hadn't yet completely closed shop for winter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The picture of Maruyama Park here doesn't nearly illustrate how freezingly cold the area was.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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All closed for winter.:(<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We exited Maruyama Park and continued along Eastern Gion in the general direction of Kiyomizu Temple, where we were very pleasantly surprised by an unexpected sight. More in the next post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Post-breakfast at Holly\u2019s Caf\u00e9, we took a 10 minute bus ride to Gion District to begin our sojourn that\u2019d lead us eventually to Kiyomizu-dera temple in the late morning. We got off the bus at the intersection between Shijo and<\/p>\n

Read More Day 4: Kyoto – Yasaka Shrine & Maruyama Park<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[463,481],"class_list":["post-12078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveling","tag-japan-2010","tag-kyoto","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}