Green and orange (Photo: Matthew Shewchuk)

Wandering around Fushimi Inari

Roaming the forest paths

C. Rio   - 1 min read

On my second visit to Kyoto, having already visited a great number of temples, I felt that I needed an escape. This city is so jam packed with temples and national heritage sites that this is a very common occurrence, or so I'm told. Thankfully my relief came in the form of a shrine, the Fushimi Inari. At the entrance courtyard, you are greeted with architecture similar to most other Japanese temples and shrines, but duck around to the back and you're rewarded with a maze of orange torii gate-lined paths meandering up the slopes. A few hundred steps upward gives you remarkable views of Kyoto and the surrounding suburbs.

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C. Rio @matthew.shewchuk

Based out of Minakami, where I work as a canyoning guide.  I love hiking and am always looking to the skies for good weather.