Arriving in Tokyo: Shibuya
I’m going to include yesterday in this blog post as we didn’t really do a huge amount, and I’m pretty shattered (a common theme in Japan because we’ve packed so much in). Before taking the train over to Tokyo at lunch time we managed to fit in the Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine and Tofukuji temple. We arrived early, at about 8, at Fushimi Inari as we’d been told by several sources that it gets very busy. Which couldn’t be more correct, it was very busy. The main shrine buildings are set at the base of a hill after a series of very large Torii gates. These gates reduce in size, but significantly increase in number as the path winds up the hill. They essentially create a tunnel through which you climb a shallow staircase, off which are numerous smaller shrines, until you reach the mid point of the hill/mountain where there’s a pretty great view over Kyoto. We’d been told the walk up to the top of the hill wasn’t worth it so we headed back down from here. Very beautiful and very different f...
