Shrines are everywhere in Kyoto.

A typical sidestreet in Kyoto.

Shrines are everywhere in Kyoto.

An average temple gate on an average Kyoto street.

Down a side street toward a major temple

Shrines are everywhere in Kyoto.

Murakamiya Ryokan, our second dwelling.

It is difficult to do justice to the enormity of the Kyoto Train Station

A view up one half of one side of the Kyoto rail station

Nishi-Otani Mausoleum complex

Nishi-Otani Mausoleum complex

Side street showing old architecture

Trees are sometimes wrapped to protect them from the winter.

A hillside intersection on the way to Kiyomizudera

A sidestreet on the homestretch to Kiyomizudera

The famous red buildings of Kiyomizudera

The complex was crowded for First Temple Visit

Another statue dressed against the weather

Kiyomizudera

Kiyomizudera

A deck at Kiyomizudera

Scott finds a quiet place to stand

a smaller shrine at Kiyomizudera

At each shrine was a bell to ring

Ali on a deck at Kiyomizudera

In the valley below the same deck, near the spring

... and ascending from the valley with the spring

Okuninushi-no-mikoto, a deity of love and marriages... with his rabbit

statues are dressed against the winter

statues are dressed against the winter