secret address

I'll be using the city buses for the first time today. Yesterday, I bought a one day bus pass from the hotel for 500 yen, with a complimentary bus guide. The pass is activated with a date stamp at the back when you first use a bus, I.e. when you use the card for the first time when disembarking a bus. No need to do anything when boarding.

Anyway, I Google mapped my route to the Golden Pavilion (金閣寺) and boarded the bus, which was going away instead of towards my destination...it took me 20 minutes to realise this and change buses.

An hour later than expected, I reached my destination.

Admission fee for an adult is 400 yen.

Since I cannot enter the pavilion, here are pictures hung up nearby of its interior.

These koi fish were huge.

Next destination was Kitano Tenman-gu Shrine, which is dedicated to a person who was both a scholar and a politician. School kids would visit the shrine to pray for good examination results.

There are cows like these all over the place.

It's said that if you are to rub the cow's head, you'll become smarter. So, I found as many cows as possible and rubbed all their heads. I bought a good luck charm for studies (勧学御守) here too. May I survive next semester. I've been procrastinating in taking a particular difficult subject called Project Management and the Professional.

I visited the Udon Museum again for dinner, but with Dale and Vivian this time.

I didn't get to take a photo of my udon before I consumed it but here's a pond at the place full of koi fish. Not as big as the ones at the Golden Pavilion, but they were still bigger than the size of my hand.