Tag: Kyoto
kyoto, kyoto
So much to love about this place. The quality of light. The jazz that wafts out of every restaurant and café. The way people seem to want to engage. And the beauty in the simplest of things.
japan – day 18 (uji)
How the Japanese help! Hanging in the room of our hotel is an image on fabric I’ve fallen in love with. I love the graphic quality – only four colours but such a mood created. It reminds me of those old Ozu films. And best of all – the cat caught in the light. I…
japan – day 16 (fushimi inari)
Today we decide to go to Fushimi Inari Shrine. It’s only two stops away by train. Posters in the subway station remind travellers about metro etiquette. 🙂 The moment we get off the train, I know it was a mistake to come. It isn’t as though we’re there late in the day. It isn’t even…
japan – day 15
Back at Murmur Coffee today. Tea instead of coffee. I like how the tea appears striped in the cup. I decide to take a different route to the busier shopping district closer to the old Airbnb. These berries are everywhere now. I often seem them in ikibana arrangements and here, growing in bunches outside a…
japan – day 14
Check out of the ol’ Airbnb is tomorrow. I guess like most things when given enough time, it’s grown on me. The one thing it has going for it is that it’s in a great location. That I will miss. I walked the 1.3 miles to ask the other hotel we’re moving to whether they…
japan – day 13
Art feeds the soul. I feel a bit out of sorts today. Not sure why. The weather is lovely – a bright and sunny, cool day. I’m quite a solitary person and am used to lots of alone time so this respite shouldn’t make me feel this way. Yet it does – a bit. I…
japan – day 12
What you see is what you get. Or is it? I’m at my favorite little udon place, less than a minute’s walk from where I’m staying. I’ve been eating there quite regularly so much so that when I walk in this evening, chef points to me and tells a couple at the counter, “Very often…