the hotel doesnt include breakfast....so we had our breakfast at kyoto station
today we will be exploring Arashiyama 嵐山, I took the other way to arashiyama as i felt it will be more convenient. We alight at JR Umahori to take the sight-seeing train.
need to walk a short distance...
and saw a pretty field full of tiny yellow flowers...WOW !!!
and here we are at the sight-seeing train terminal
Torokko Kameoka Station
little souvenirs around the station...
hello kitty/doraemon mineral water
domo as geisha and rilakuma sweets below
the little shop outside the station....
free tasting of tea
see the sakuras around is going to bloom in days time..
here come our train...
Sagano Scenic Train 嵯峨野観光鉄道
and here we are .....
alighting at the arashiyama station
pretty flowers by the roadside
cute doggie too!
and here we reach the bamboo groves~
does this place look familiar to you? its one of the scene in memoir of a geisha
Tenruji Temple in between the bamboo groves
hu shen fu~ from 500 to 1000yen
continue our way.....
another interesting machine.. not machine actually.. its a blood type and horoscope fortune-telling slip of paper... just take the paper and drop 100yen on the top right hand corner.
On our way to togetsukyo bridge, we passby the shopping street around JR arashiyama
u'll always see hello kitty around~
they have a number of shops selling kimono fabric stuff..
very pretty! but its quite ex...
this is another shop which i wanna recommend:
The Chiri-men craft museum of Arashiyama
Chiri-Men aka the kimono fabric..
like i said its very expensive due to its handicraft
its not really a museum...its actually a shop.. selling lots of handicraft made using chiri-men
the seven deities of good fortune
super kawaii sushi!!! but its much more expensive than the real sushi~
veggies too... very delicate craft issit it?
dolls that they will buy for Hinamatsuri (Doll Festival) on March 3
it is to pray for girls' growth and happiness
little information on the dolls:
Most families with girls display "hina-ningyo" (special dolls for Hinamatsuri) and dedicate peach blossoms to them. They are usually arranged on a five or seven-tiered stand covered with a red carpet. At the top are the Emperor and Empress. The next step contains three court ladies (sannin-kanjo), followed by five musicians (gonin-bayashi), two ministers (udaijin and sadaijin), and three servants ending the bottom row in a five-tiered display. There are also small pieces of furniture, small meal dishes, and other things.
continue our way down.....
Togetsukyo Bridge
roadside food stalls nearby~
our first takoyaki of this trip
bbq squid... its not very cheap but its huge!
pretty plum blossoms!
during the spring season, there's lots of sakura stuff... like edible sakura~
they also have cute gods display
JR Arashiyama Station
a samurai dog!!!!!!
super kawaiii to the maX!!!!
theres also many handicraft shops around in kyoto...
below is a shop which make use of cocoon
creative izzit it?
had our lunch before we continue our journey to the next destination~
Next destination:
Fushimi Inari 伏見稲荷大社
Another scene from memoirs of the geisha... where zhang zi yi ran through thousands of torii gates
the shrine is dedicated to Inari, the shinto god of rice and fox are Inari's messengers
so you will see lots of fox statues around...
the donators' name is at the back of the torii gate
One of the places I always wanted to visit.... that is theme restaurant
decided on Ninja Restaurant near Shijo street
had asked the hotel staff to help me make a reservation at 7pm... Im still early so we walked around the surroundings.
and I saw this weird looking creature....
fish? lizard? dragon?
i dont know ~ japan seriously got lots to see...
At 7pm, we reached Ninja Kyoto Restuarant
after the waitress confirmed our number of pax... she ushered us to a dark pathway..like we are escaping somewhere(i heard the tokyo's pathway before you reached your table is even more exciting) and there another ninja DASH out... scare us~ I have to comment that the waiter/waitress inside are very very good, they really act like ninja...... dashing here and there..
and we reached our private cave...
the button under the table, to call for service~
everything was according to the theme
here come our entree~
aaa... fei biao? blade on branch?
no!!!! its biscuits!!!!
another appetiser
we was told to pull out the sword
jianggggg~!
prawn salad!!!
next up,
a black box~ we was told to open it up....
an egg was unveiled...
prawn in an jelly egg~
and the waitress mixed it up for us with the seaweeds...
another fish-shaped dish but its meat inside~
this is nothing much... the name is something like hidden pig or sometime...
yea.... its hidden by lots of veggies...
One of the creative one which i like is this...
it was served like this... we tht huh...there only mushroom and capsicums
?????
the mystery is below the grill...
did you manage to guess what is the charcoal?
it's seaweed chicken!!!!!!!
we also ordered soup... forget to take photo earlier~
anyway here's how it look like in the menu~
after we finished our dinner before dessert
a ninja come in to perform some magic tricks for us!
after the entertainment, its dessert time!
busy unwrapping!!!
gold bar??????
no~ it's choc ice cream wrapped in edible gold flakes
aaaa plant???
no... it's still ice cream!!! LOL
aaaa frog????
no~ it's cheesecake
creative ya?
and the female ninja send us off ~
total damage: 14,058 yen
yeah, its ex... but i felt if you got the budget to spare... give it a try. it an experience~ the decor the people their creativity~ * thumb up*
matcha sweets we bought 5040yen in total
cute socks
and some of my favourite choc...
and not forgetting the kyoto exclusive hello kitty and dear daniel in Chiri-men fabric (520 each)!
love it to the MAXxxx!!!
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