More from Kyoto

Yesterday we spent the day with Kenta, a Japanese boyfriend of Wictoria. He had a car, so we had the opportunity to go to alot of places. First, we went to the Inari temple, or one of the inari shrines here in Japan. Which is such a pretty place! Inari is the fox god which represents rice in Japan or something.

 

On our way up to the Inari temple/shrine.

Bought some souveniers aswell..

  

Really pretty buildings at the Inari shrine.

 

 

  

The fox god

 

Kenta made us do a japanese ritual, by tossing a coin inside a temple, and ringing these bells. We were then supposed to close our eyes and pray for something I think.. but I skipped that part >_>''

We bough one of these fox heads. We were supposed to draw faces on them, and then write our name and wish on the back of it.

We then hung them here among lots of other fox heads.

 

Guess which is mine......         ......the one in the middle!

Another fox statue

Into the portals of the unknown.......

  

Pretty right?

Later on we went to another place with temples, don't know the name of the place though.

 

This temple is sooo big! the pictures doesn't really show...

Later that evening, we went together to take Purikura (pictures from a photomachine), eat ramen, and go to karaoke!

Narutos favorite! Tasted good. This is the smallest size, but it was really big! And only about 30 NOK!!

At the karaoke. Bad picture, but this was the japanese friends of Wictoria we went out with. It was really fun. about 200NOK, and you can sing for as long as you'd like in your own room, and drink as much alcohol/tea/juice etc... as you want :-)

Today we only went a small trip to Gion, which is a place with lots of gift shops, and some temples. We were so tired from last night, so this small trip suited us perfectly.

 

I found some cool statues in Gion.

Another huuge temple.

 

Later on we went shopping :-) 

  

We then went to eat some japanese cake! This looks sooo much like the ones you see in anime. So perfectly shaped. 

 

Right now I'm eating mango pudding, and relaxing in the hostell bedroom. We have done so much these past days, and all the new impressions havn't really sunken in yet. Therefore, I'm quite tired. I wonder when I'll realise that I'm in Japan?