kiyomizu temple to kodaiji temple to shorein-in temple and back

Monday phoneography challenge – macro: detail on map

Apps: candy camera, camera360, snapseed and moldive
Equipment: samsung galaxy note

There were some possible places where I could have lost my handphone (keitai) – the shop we ate dinner at, the taxi we took back to the hotel and anywhere else in between, which would be on the street.

I had to walk up and down the warren of paths between kiyomizu temple and kodaiji temple and I probably went past the shop three times before I finally found it. The place looked so different at night compared to the daytime and the shop itself was just so nondescript in appearence.

The walk at least was interesting because the paths were lined with all sorts of shops and curiosities that might entice both domestic and foreign tourists – foodstuffs and snacks, local crafts, the local facecare brand yayoji, fun looking food places and even the odd scary mask shop and equally random studio ghibli paraphernalia shop. One could spend the whole afternoon there and still have more shops to poke into and food to try.

Up and down the sloping and stepped streets I went until I finally found the food shop I was looking for, but no handphone there. I got tired of walking the same streets to get bsck so I went tge other way instead and trekked across Maruyama park looking for Shorein-in. Along the way I found yet another grand looking temple and also a gloomy path leading into an emperor’s mausoleum, completely with screeches from an unseen angry bird.