A Japanese Christmas and a Thai New year.

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Lots of jams.




Want to add a raw egg to your food? No problem.


Cold omelette and cooked salmon.




More Japanese offerings


Tofu and fried eggs-I didn't like them this way. You could though get an omelette cooked.


And a taste sensation -peach buns.

Bakery items,

 

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Then my plates. Fruit, cold items hot items.

 

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After a post breakfast rest we walked over the road to the Nijo-ji castle. Some posters before you get to the admissions.






Admission is 1300 yen. No seniors concession. Too many people entering but this is the main gate looking back.

 

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That gate leads to the real gem of this place and it isn't the castle. It is this-






This is what you really pay your admission to see. Obviously a very important part of Japanese history. It is shoes off and no photography allowed inside. However it is magnificent especially the art work on the rooms dividing panels. Just a must see.
But there is also the gardens.






So you go around the palace but have the gardens to your other side. The palace doesn't look much from the outside but you get a better idea just how big it is.

 

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The gardens contionued.

 

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The view after climbing the base.

 

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Still autumn eaves.

 

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Taking care of the pines.

 

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Some signs that were at the entrance but I wasn't looking that way.








And that was our morning's exercise done.

 

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In the late afternoon I went with the family to Fushima Inari. the only major shrine in Kyoto I hadn't visited as Mrsdrron doesn't climb hills. Not far by train and the tori gates start on the platform.


Then up the street







2 lines close together so frequent interruptions at the level crossings.






The crowds weren't massive.

 

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An overload of tori gates.

 

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It was now I turned around as the family continued on.

 

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I came to a rest area and sat down for a while. A peaceful scene.