JAPAN 2017: DAY 2, PART 1 – Kyoto – Fushimi Inari Taisha (Inc. Video)
These 18 new galleries are a combination of a month and a half’s work of whittling down & post-processing around 5000 photos that I took on this dream trip to Japan in November 2017 down to 561, many late nights & tired eyeballs, 5 months planning & preparation for the actual trip (no package holiday tours here!), raising the funds, praying everyday that war wouldn’t break out in Korea, surviving two crazy long flights on zero sleep, navigating around the Japanese cities of Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Tokyo & Hiroshima, getting up crazy early to get to some of these places before the hoards of mostly Chinese tourists arrive and generally walking & hiking until I couldn’t feel my feet anymore! I present to you ‘Me, Myself and Japan 2017 Trip!’ (and my camera of course… ;] )
Giant red torii gate at the entrance to Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoColorful wooden map guide to Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoBack view of the Romon Gate in Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoSenbon Torii or thousands of torii gates at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoName and date of each donator on these torii gates at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoWinding vermilion torii gates leading to the sacred Mount Inari at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoTwo woman pause to take a photo of the torii gates and autumn colors at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoShin ike Pond and the Kumatakasha at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoSpider spins a web in the wooded forest of Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoWild cat in the wooded forest of Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoEntrance to many shrines in the wooded forest of Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoLooking out over Shin ike Pond in Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoTraversing the steep steps of the woods and shrine in Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoKitsune or fox statue at a shrine in Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoMiniature torii gates ready to be donated to the shrines in Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoStack of miniature torii gates at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoYoung and old taking the hike up to sacred Mount Inari at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoTemizuya on the way up the sacred Mount Inari at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoView of Kyoto from the Yotsutsuji intersection at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoOutside look at the torii gates coming back down Mount Inari at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoTanuki statue at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoBaby cat playing at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoBaby cats eating at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoMist coming through the wooded forest of autumn colors at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoTorii gate and shrines with autumn colors at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoOld mossed tree growing through this shrine at Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoColorful shop entrance at the exit of Fushimi Inari Taisha KyotoSumo wrestling poster KyotoOctopus on a stick KyotoTakoyaki or octopus in a wheat ball KyotoTrain crossing with train to Nara passing by Kyoto
