Pretty basic day of touring Kyoto so far today which has shrines and temples all over the city. Got up around 8, showered in the shared showers and then grabbed a train down to the Fushimi Inari Shrine. It supposedly is one of the largest Inari shrines in Japan and is complete with a 2 mile walk through a path of toris to the top of the hill. The climb took a little over an hour, but was no where near as bad as the hike into the Grand Canyon three weeks ago. After that we trained over to Kyoto station to get the JR passes to Osaka and grab some lunch in the mall. From there we headed to the Nijo Castle and paid 6 bucks to get in and walk around a bit on the nightingale floors which squeak as you walk. This is apparently so that the guards could hear if anyone was trying to sneak into the palace. It was pretty cool, but at that point I was pretty beat.
That's pretty much it so far today. We are going to head over to a park with snow monkeys tomorrow and then probably more shrines.
