Japan's former capital: two thousand temples, Zen gardens and wooden streets.
Walk the Philosopher's Path from the Silver Pavilion, Ginkaku-ji, to Nanzen-ji, along a canal lined with cherry trees. In the evening, the lanterns of Gion light up the old teahouses.
Go early to the thousands of red torii gates of Fushimi Inari, and spend an afternoon in the bamboo grove and the gardens of Arashiyama.
Photo: Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunlight_through_clouds_and_view_of_Ginkaku-ji_Temple_from_above,_Kyoto,_Japan.jpg)
