Trip report 2.

Sooo here comes the second installment of my kansai trip. I was planning on putting this off even longer but then I realized I was quickly forgetting everything so I decided sooner is better then later. I guess I left off with Nara, and the Todaiji. After Nara I spent two days in Kyoto. Kyoto was beautiful, but it should be noted it is not the ancient city that comes to be pictured in mosts minds. To begin with Kyoto station I believe is the biggest train station in Japan, it was huge, also the city looks basically like most other modern cities in Japan, plus even though it avoided bombings in WWII a lot of the city has been destroyed by insane pyromaniac monks at some point. The amazing part is that you can walk about 15 minutes in any direction and you will hit some sort of temple or shrine. The places I visited were the biggest pagoda in Japan in Toji temple, then I saw 1001 statues at sanjusangendou temple. The 1001 statues had me awestruck, they all had like 10 too many freaky arms and they were all in the same position with the same clothing but each statue had a different facial expression. Plus there were some statues representing various buddha dieties each with their own specialty item. You could make a sweet fighting game out of those guy, specially the guy who carries around the dragon. I then hit my favorite temple kiyoumizudera temple or pure water temple. It is on a hill or mountain, which is covered in these awsome big green trees. By the time we got there it had started to rain a bit but it just intensified the green and made the air crisper. It was great to walk around plus there was a freaky bunny statue and a love rock. Later we walked around Shijo and ate awsome okinomiyaki at a place called Mr. Young Men, gooood stuff. The next day there I hit up the shoguns castle Nijo castle, whose floor is built so when you are walking over it it sounds like 1000 birds or some bullshit like that it was a nice effect. Plus the castle had a really boss garden. I also hit up the golden temple, kinkakuji, and one of the most famous zen rock gardens at ryouaji temple, it was ass crowded but I was still able to reach enlightenment which is a good deal. F you samsara. Had some more awsome food of course, and saw some horrible to sweet ranging movies at Tom's. The worst being NinNin (smap sucks), and maybe tied with Juon 2. Well that was almost all of Kyoto except I spent one more half day there but I am going chronologically and that was after the Osaka days. Until then enjoy this picture of the freaky bunny.