If only the great English poets or French painters had spent an autumn in Kyoto, the world would be so enriched with the beauty of Kyoto's temples, shrines, mountains and rivers.

Like Paris, Kyoto is a moveable feast. The beauty of the city lies not only in the world heritage sites and geishas but also in the nooks, crannies, canals and alleys. Take a path that no one seems have to trod upon, and you discover for the first time a new beauty that had lain in wait for decades to be discovered, be it a stone, a fallen leaf or the root of an upturned tree that had finally succumbed to a strong wind.