The last day of our Japan trip, we went to check out the breathtaking autumn foliage at Kyoto, since we had only one day to spare, we chose Arashiyama.
While many who visited Arashiyama before knows about the Tenryū-ji (天龍寺) and the "Moon Crossing Bridge" (渡月橋,Togetsukyō) , I think the beauty of Arashiyama is really those little shrines hidden at the back streets: quite and peaceful.
[Restored October 2026: this 2014 post was lost in a site migration and has been brought back from the Internet Archive, with eleven of its twelve original photographs recovered from our own photo archive; one could not be recovered in usable form and has been left out.]