Naramachi - my new home

Naramachi preserves things the way it used to be... 

 

Harushika is the local Sake maker

it means Spring Deer

You pay ￥400 for tasting

I got to try 6 and they were all GREAT!

 

Ochoko

You drink with this and you get to keep this after the tasting

 

They pickle vegetables in Sake-kasu (Sake lees according to google)

 

 Harushika front

 

Coffee shop

Milk receiving box

Community place - local artists sell some stuff

 

 

 Drug store

 

Radio station

 

Coffee shops are all over

 

Nara pickles in ice cream

Nara pickles is pickles fermented in Sake lees (Sake Kasu)

It is rice left over stuff after making sake

All most time to go back to USA... 

Kyoto All Day

My favorite city, Kyoto!

If you go, you have to buy this one day bus ticket. You will save lots of money!

First stop is Kitano Shrine Temple Market

 

All kinds of street food

 

 

She is wearing local farmer outfit from the area in Kyoto

 

 

The shrine just changed the decoration and people are taking pieces of old one for good luck

 

 

 

Typical offerings are sake, rice and soy sauce  

 

 

 

 

Tea house in the shrine that has been in business more than 400 years 

 

This is what they served then and still today

Matcha and Mochi

Delicious

This is proper way how Macha is served

 

More market stuff

 

This market open about 5 am and now it's 2 pm...

I understand...

 

 

To Ginkaku Temple

  

 

 

 

Kamo river

Tujiri is the tea maker

 

Tujiri Parfait

 

@ Gion

Maiko is going to work

 

Geisha is getting ready for work too

  

 

Yasaka shrine

 

Kyoto restaurants often don't have menu and price...

usually that means expensive

 

House where Maiko and Geisha live

 

Over the river break time!

 

Kamikaze - Japanese cocktails are not as good

but this place is better than others

 

Time to leave!

I was out 15+hours!

 

Kyoto Tower