Kyoto

Kyoto

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This image has been removed.	A view of the Kyoto Tower as reflected in the glass of the Kyoto train station.	A juxtaposition of the new Kyoto Tower and a very large and old temple.

This sign explains an exhibit of human hair rope on display at the largest temple in Kyoto. The followers who built the temple cut their own hair and made a human hair rope to transport/drag the large beams needed for the temple.	It's sort of hard to see, but this is the human hair rope.	Prayer room inside the largest temple in Kyoto.

Another room inside the temple	A more modern structure built within one of the buildings on the Temple grounds. This building housed an audio visual auditorium and museum.	A walkway inside the Temple museum. The exterior of the building looked very traditional.

Visitors (and members of our walking tour) in the temple museum.	A scroll on display in the temple museum.	A moat with Waterlillies surrounded the temple grounds.

In front of the temple grounds was a fountain in the shape of a lotus flower.	A stone wall at the entrance to a public garden in Kyoto.	One of the bridges in the public garden in Kyoto.

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