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Kyoto
Continuing my Osaka trip, I took the kyoto-tozai line to Kyoto aka the City of Ten Thousand Shrines.(FYI, it is about 1000yen to and fro on the subway)
Kyoto is currently my favourite city in the world !
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| People sitting by the river bank chatting. |
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| Beautiful old school back alley. Ninja ninja everywhere ! |
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| Crane alert ! |
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| Wanted for a thousand years ~ |
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| The present and the past. |
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| Tourists in their traditional garb. |
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| People people. |
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| More people queuing to quench their thirst. |
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| Beautiful like a scene out of a Studio Ghibli production. |
But the number of Geisha/Geiko in modern Japan have dwindled to an estimated 1,000-2,000. And to be able to meet one is considered to be extremely lucky.
Most of my Japanese friend themselves have not even seen them before.
After 3 hours of walking around and on my way back, through Gion ....
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| From a distance... |
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| Fukucho-san ! |
Truth to be told, when I was young, I was so obsessed over Geisha.
I spend like hours drawing miniature geisha and even learning the 祇園小唄 ( Gion Kouta ) movement. The fan dance ... The way they look at people and people falling at their feet.
I always thought the perfect kind of woman/lady is like a geisha, walking small steps and doing only small actions.
I wonder what happen to me now ....
So one day, I told my dad that I wanted to be a Geisha and he explain to me what a " Geisha Girl" does (geisha girl is somewhat like a prostitute but geisha can choose to be only an entertainer).
And the young me got confused and decided not to condemn myself so .... I grew up to be a modern person.
Food!
I decided to pop my head into a small eatery but some okonomiyaki ~
The taste was not the best but Ojisan had a lot of passion. Ojisan ! Arigotou Gozaimashita !
Overall, I am really thankful for the opportunity to be able to travel to Japan so often.
I really love the country and thanks god for letting me discover Kyoto.
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