You might notice there's a bit of a gap of days between this entry and the previous entry. The reason for this was in the week between these two entries I had been really busy handing out advertisements for our English classes at the train stations morning and evening. After all of this hard work it was time to take a well deserved bit of time out and I spent a Saturday morning in Arashiyama about 10kms away from Nagaokakyo.
Arashiyama is a part of Kyoto that still has a lot of older style buildings and is quite a nice place to wander around if you get there early enough before all of the tourist and day trippers gather there. I got there around 8:00am and the place was almost empty. Eventually I'll get to putting up a full gallery of the shots from this visit, but until then you can check out a couple of my previous visits to Arashiyama (not so early in the day). See http://www.pbase.com/jameslclarke/arashiyama05 and http://www.pbase.com/jameslclarke/arashiyama06