Free day in Kyoto

Yesterday we went Kyoto for a free day. I like the culture environment there, all the old temple, the museum and transitional Japanese dress on the street. However, because of the time limited, we only went two temple during free time, the Kiyomizudera Temple and Fushimi Inari Shrine. After this visit, I really want to spend more time in Kyoto in the future, although I do not have a religion in Buddhism, I am interested in the Buddhism culture and history.

The Kiyomizudera Temple is an amazing place, because during the time they built it, they do not use any nail to make the temple stable. This impressive me a lot. Also, because of the location of this temple, we can see the most part of the Kyoto city when we get top of the temple, this is really beautiful. I did some pray when I was in Kiyomizudera Temple, because someone said this place is one of the place that when people pray, the dream would come true in the future. Later we went to Fushimi Inari Shrine, this is a place with lots of red gates there. It's a pretty place. However, because we get there at 2:50 which means we do not have enough time to explore it, so we just went to the famous gate place and got back. 

This is an interesting one day trip. Because I am interested in Buddhism and I visited lots of temples when I was in China, this makes me want to explore Japanese Buddhism, since Japanese buddhism is came from China thousand years ago. I may not can explain in English really accuracy. All the pray ways are different from China, during the many years developing, Japanese have their own pray way for Buddhism. Although the Buddha named same in Chinese, the Buddha figures are different in details. I think I have to look up more historical books when I get back to China to found out how those difference happened during the history. I really discovered a lot in this free day.

（Kiyomizudera Temple）

（A man is drawing Kiyomizudera Temple)

(Fushimi Inari Shrine)

(Fushimi Inari Shrine)