Kyoto (1)

I left Fukui, a large rural area, and went to the city to go to Kyoto. My first impression of Kyoto was quite good. I checked into a youth hostel and spent a night shopping in the nearby Gion (Kyoto Geisha District). The representative building here is the Gion Musical Theater. Walking on the street, I saw a lot of tourists wearing rented kimonos, and occasionally saw real geisha, wearing clogs on their feet, walking in small steps, and their faces were extraordinarily delicate. Later I heard that it is best not to take pictures of geisha at will, but I don't know what the real reason is. There are many private houses and blessing courtyards on this street.

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I went to two restaurants in the evening, the first one was selling big omelets with various ingredients inside. After that, the two of us ordered eel rice at the roadside restaurant back to the youth hostel.

The next morning, I found a breakfast restaurant near the hostel, and ordered the raw egg and soy sauce bibimbap that my friend said must be tried when coming to Japan. Japanese people really like to eat sticky food. The natto (fermented soybeans) I had for breakfast yesterday was also sticky. I was a little worried when I heard that raw eggs were eaten directly with bibimbap for the first time, but this is actually very common and popular in Japan. Why do Japanese dare to eat raw egg bibimbap? Because Japanese eggs are all sterile eggs, which are eggs laid by professionally raised chickens, have strict safety standards, and have a shelf life of only about ten days. It is normal for Japan to eat raw eggs, but it is not eaten raw in China. And it is obvious that the color of the eggs here is particularly bright, orange and yellow are red. So pour the raw egg over the warm rice, add a little Japanese soy sauce, stir it and eat it straight away. After tasting it, I found that it was not as unacceptable as I imagined, but I can't say how delicious it is, just try it. After breakfast, I took the subway to Arashiyama. I feel that the subway is super clean and orderly. The subway system is also very developed and convenient to ride.

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When you arrive at Arashiyama, you can see green everywhere. On the way to climb the mountain, you pass through a very quiet Dakochi Sanzhuang Ōkōchi Sansō, which is the residence and garden of a Japanese mime actor in Arashiyama. This includes study rooms, temples and tea rooms, and you can see the panoramic view of Kyoto from here. Because you need to buy tickets for the visit, the tickets include matcha and snacks. From the villa, you can see the famous bamboo forest in Arashiyama, Kyoto. Being in the bamboo forest, it feels really spectacular. Unfortunately, there are too many tourists during the Golden Week, and the photos are full of people.

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There is an Iwatayama Monkey Park in Arashiyama. You can see monkeys at the top after climbing a lot of steps. The monkeys here have been fed so fat that they can't extricate themselves, showing all kinds of ugliness. Instead, the tourists fed the monkeys in a big cage, and the monkeys jumped up and down outside the cage.

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Before I came to Arashiyama, I didn’t expect that there would be so many roads to walk. I wore flip-flops for a whole day, hiking and climbing a total of 30,000 steps, and the quality of the flip-flops was not broken. The night view on the way back is also beautiful.