Kyoto

Dec 3, 2014 - 1 min read

Lost in Southern Higashiyama

Cycling Higashiyama's back streets in autumn

By Cathy Cawood

Community writer

A very inviting road!

Wet maple leaves on the road

This road seems to lead into the mountains

Torii at the entrance to a shrine I couldn't even find on Google Maps!

Red and yellow maple trees side by side on the hill

A red bridge high in the trees

Graveyard on the hillside

Row of almost leafless bonsai trees against the wall of a wooden house

A small gully filled with autumn color

Very small Ojizo dwarfed by its large red and white shelter

Red bridge at the entrance to Imakuma-no-Kannonji

Entrance to Imakuma-no-Kannonji

Autumn leaves form a colorful background

Stone lanterns flank the road as it emerges from the shadow of the trees into the sunlight

Baseball players head home after a game

One of my greatest pleasures while living in Kyoto was to take long rambling bicycle rides. One autumn day, after visiting crowded Tofukuji, I headed into the streets on the lower slopes of the Higashiyama Hills, just to see what was there. I found many pretty autumn scenes. Most intriguing was the entrance to Imakuma-no-Kannonji, with it's striking red bridge. I didn't enter the temple that day. I thought I could continue exploring, and return to visit another day. The back streets of Kyoto are full of wonderful surprises. They never disappoint me.

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Cathy Cawood

By Cathy Cawood

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Victoria Vlisides

Victoria Vlisides 10 years ago

Beautiful photos to view on this rainy day! :)

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