{"id":34354,"date":"2016-04-16T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/apercu-de-kyoto\/"},"modified":"2020-07-12T18:14:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T16:14:18","slug":"glimpse-of-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/en\/glimpse-of-kyoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Glimpse of Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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For my last day of work, Thursday March 31, TYK organized for me a day trip to Kyoto! Visit of several temples to enjoy the cherry blossoms, meal in a restaurant of high Japanese gastronomy and dance performance by the Geishas are on the program! Followed by a meal to celebrate my departure with TYK leaders in Tajimi in the evening! So it is quite excited that I join Kaku-san who is accompanying me on this busy day!<\/p>

We take several trains to reach Kyoto, including the Shinkansen, which I am taking for the first time. The very long nose of the device is not to its advantage. It may be for aerodynamic issues but it really is not very pretty. The interior looks like an airplane but with more space: rounded portholes, reclining seats with tablet, numbered rows of seats, neon lights. Added to this is a flow of information that scrolls at both ends of the wagon. Theses of course provides information on the stops, but also on the weather, on the news, on the state of companies in Japan\u2026 Around 9:30 am, we arrive in Kyoto. As soon as we land, we meet Mr. Matsumura, our taxi driver for the day. First time in a Japanese taxi! It is comfortable. Mr. Matsumura seems to be happy to meet me. He tells me that he did a year of French during his studies. Demonstration of the few words he knows and we leave!<\/p>

Our first destination was supposed to be the Daigo-ji temple twenty minutes by car from the center of Kyoto. But Mr. Matsumura tells us that the schedule is too tight and that it is better to visit the gardens of the Imperial Palace. It is closer and it\u2019s \u201cThe number 1 place in Kyoto to see the cherry blossom\u201d says our driver. The gardens are fifty-one hectares and are home to the Kyoto-gosho<\/em> (Kyoto Imperial Palace) which served as the Emperor’s official residence until the beginning of the Meiji era in 1868. Indeed, the place is very beautiful. We walk along the palace grounds (visitable only by prior reservation) and arrive in a corner of the garden with several magnificent cherry blossoms. Several species of cherry trees coexist for color variations from pure white to almost bright pink. The weeping cherry trees (with falling branches) are impressive. A whole bunch of people came to rave about this fragile beauty.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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