{"id":105,"date":"2005-11-29T14:27:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T05:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-11-29\/105"},"modified":"2007-06-30T20:32:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T11:32:38","slug":"more-fall-foliage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-11-29\/105","title":{"rendered":"More Fall Foliage: Kyoto Incline, Mountains, Temples, and Nanzenji"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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A small<\/span> part of the aqueduct bridge at the Nanzen Temple (Nanzenji), Kyoto Japan<\/big>\nPhoto by Katsunori Shimada<\/small><\/center><\/div>\n\n
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\n\nIt's fall in Kyoto and that means lots of little trips to see the\nmagnificent foliage. Anthony and I took<\/span> a long<\/span> walk last week with\nKatsunori Shimada, my good friend of 10+ years. We went to<\/span> the Kyoto Biwako\nCanal Museum (about the canal built in the 1880s that brought water and\nJapan's first electricity to Kyoto), then up the Kyoto Incline and into the\nmountains and temples and paths back behind it. (Five pages of pictures here<\/a>.)\n\n<\/p>\n\n

Our day was mostly uncrowded until during our return we\ndescended from the mountains into the rear corner of Nanzenji (\u5357\u7985\u5bfa<\/span> — the Nanzen\nTemple<\/a>).\n\n<\/p>

There, it was an absolute mad house of tourists jockeying for\nposition to take photos of the stunning foliage. I live pretty<\/span> close, and\nso had known for some time by the mind-numbing traffic what to expect,\nwhich is why Nanzenji was a path<\/span> to get home and not our actual\ndestination. The photo<\/span> at right (of part of the aqueduct bridge,\nlengthwise) shows some of the crowd even at this remote corner of the\ntemple area.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nStill, Shimada-san was able to take the photo above, which I think<\/span> is just fantastic. It'd make a<\/span> wonderful computer desktop background.\n\n<\/p><\/td>

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This temple in the mountains behind the Kyoto Incline was just as\nbeautiful as Nanzenji, but wonderfully uncrowded.<\/p>\n\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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The only way to travel!<\/big>\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThe paths through the mountains in this area are fairly easy, and even\nAnthony could walk most of the way (what a trooper!<\/span>) Toward the end, I carried<\/span> him on my shoulders for a while,<\/span> and then he got a special<\/span> treat: a\npiggyback<\/span> ride from Shimada-san.\n\n<\/p><\/td>

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It's fall in Kyoto and that means lots of little trips to see the magnificent foliage. Anthony and I took a long walk last week with Katsunori Shimada, my good friend of 10+ years. We went to the Kyoto Biwako Canal Museum (about the canal built in the 1880s that brought water and Japan's first electricity to Kyoto), then up the Kyoto Incline and into the mountains and temples and paths back behind it. (Five pages of pictures here.) <\/p>

Our day was mostly uncrowded until during our return we descended from the mountains into the rear corner of [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2,6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}