Do You Like Shiny Things?

Check this one out:


Oooooooh, shiny. It's the Golden Pavilion at Rokuon-ji Temple - aka Kinkakuji. It's actually covered in actual gold, and we went to Kyoto last weekend to see it. Getting there was a bit of a trial - the guidebook said it was just a bus from the station. They failed to mention it's about forty minutes worth of bus. Gahhhh. So, it wsa a bit late in the day when we got there, and the best of the sunlight had passed, but the temple grounds were still very pretty.


They also had a nice little outdoors teahouse thingo going on, with classy red umbrellas amongst the trees. So we stopped for some afternoon matcha. The matcha was, you know, matcha, but the sweet was so nice that we bought some to take away.




There were also vending machines for omikuji (fortunes), and they had various languages so I got one in English. Mine says

"In the wonderful moonlight, how glad I am to find a way to go along.
Your fortune: Pretty Good.
Your fortune will be better and better as if the dark road got lighter because of the moonshine. Go slowly but steadily and make your own way, and everything will go well."

Then there's a whole lot of random bits of advice for various situations, like Expected Visitor, Missing Thing, Speculation, Marriage, Childbirth, and Illness. My favourite is the cryptic "Removal". The advice is just "Ask another person".

So, do any of you guys want to remove something for me?