Seiryoji Temple and Tofu Restaurant Chikusen

  Tofu Restaurant Chikusen is in the yard of
Seiryoji Temple. It takes 15 minutes from Saga Arashiyama Station to the temple. The
restaurant, Chikusen is famous for its Tofu dishes, especially Tofu hot pot cooking.
  Seiryoji Temple was founded in 945.

The temple has many cultural heritages and beautiful gardens.

The corrider of the temple and the gsrden.

Tofu restaurant Chikusen

Tofu dishes were very delicious and I liked the ambiance of the restaurant.

No.21 Typhoon Damage and Togetsukyo Bridge

No.21 typhoon on September 3 brought a great  damage on Kinki area, especially on
Kansai Air Port and Osaka Prefecture.
I hear that Kansai Air Port will be perfectly
restored on September 21. It is earlier than
we expected and we are relieved to hear that. There still seen damages on looves of
some houses, but people in most of the area have retrieved the usual life.
I saw the news about Togetsukyo Bridge in Arashiyama, Kyoto on TV, that the banister if the bridge fell down because of the strong wind.
I came back to Arashiyama today and went to check Togetsukyo Bridge. The banisters on the left side fell down and haven't restored；however, we can cross the bridge
alright.

The banister of this side is all right.

Chinese Restaurant in Uzumasa

Uzumasa has a movie studio and Uzumasa
Eiga Mura (Toei Kyoto Studio Park). You can enjoy seeing period dramas  sets and some attractions like Ninja Training Dojo.
 Near the park, there is an old shopping street named Daieidori Shopping Street.
On the street there are some famous restaurants where movie actors sometimes
visit.
I visited one of such restaurants to eat C Chinese dishes. These were very tasty and the price was reasonable.
The name of the restaurant is Saiksn Wong.
Please try eating there when you go to Uzumasa.

Rokudo-Chinkoji Temple, Pottery Market on Gojo Street, and Fruits Sandwich

Today, August 10 was the last day of Rokudo-mairi and the pottery market on the Gojo Street. Rokudo-mairi is one of the events of Bon .
Bon or Obon(August 13～16) is the period to welcome our  ancestor’s spirits, and most of Japanese take long holidays for family gathering or to go traveling.
In Kyoto, many people go to Rokudo-Chinkoji Temple to do welcoming-ancestors-event； getting Koyamaki(green leaves branch), writing ancestors’ names, ringing a bell,etc.

These are called Rokudo-mairi.
I went to Rokudo-Chinkoji Temple for the first time. This time I couldn’t join the event because I didn’t understand the rule. So I only prayed in front of the temple and went to the pottery market.

On the way to the Gojo Street, there is Rokuhara-Mitsuji Temple.

There is a candy shop near Rokudo-Chinkoji Temple. I bought a pack of Yurei Kosodate-ame(a ghost mother’s candy to bring up a child ). The name of this candy came  from a sad story of a mother. She died when she delivered a baby. As she couldn't give her baby her breast milk and wanted to give her baby nutrition, she became a ghost and went to buy candies everyday  to give them
to her baby and brought up her baby.
After 20 minutes walk, I got to Gojo-zaka, the road to Kiyomizu Temple.
Kiyomizu Temple is a very famous tourist destination, but I didn't visit there because
today’s my purpose was visiting the pottery market. It was held on the sidewalk on the Gojo Street near Gojo-zaka.

I bought two cups at this shop.
I went back to Randen Shijo Omiya Station
and bought fruits sandwiches at a fruits shop, Yaoiso. Fruits sandwiches were very delicious.

I got on the Randen train at Omiya Station and went home.

Katsura River and Shovel Cars

I saw shovel cars on the sandbank in Katsura River. Because of the heavy rain in July, there were a lot of sand and stones carried by the stream from the upper stream. The shovel cars excavate sand and stones to keep the river safe condition.

 This shovel car looks like a giraffe.

Kawadoko(floor on the river) in Takao and Jingo-jiTemple

We went to Takao to have lunch on Kawadoko. Takao is on the mountain in the north part of  Kyoto City. It is famous for utumn leaves, however the green maple leaves in summer are beautiful, too.
   We enjoyed eating Japanese style meal and cool breaze from the river on
Kawadoko, the floor set by the river.

After eating lunch, we went to Jingo-ji Temple. We did Kawarke-nage

(throwing small pottery) to shake off bad luck.

                    throwing small pottery

the gate of Jingo-ji Temple

On the way to Jingo Temple, there is a tea shop and we ate kakigori, shave ice after visiting the temple.

kakigori

Obanzai(a la carte in Kyoto) Restaurant Sai-no-Suke

  My friends from Yokohama and I went to the restaurant, Sai-no-Suke near Kurumazaki Shrine Station. This restaurant
serves Obanzai, a la carte dishes.
  I had been there once. The dishes they served were very good. So I took my friends there because I  wanted my friends to taste their delicious food. The owner sheff of
the restaurant said that he went fishing and fished Ayu by himself.
  We ate grilled Ayu, grilled egg plants with miso sauce, boiled hamo, and sushi.
All food were very delicious, and we enjoyed them very much.

sushi

grilled egg plant

 boiled hamo