We were kind of getting tired of walking and looking but as we were walking out of Ryoan-ji we saw a vending machine — many vending machines! — with matcha latte! Yes! We slipped in our 500 yen coin and a cup plopped down, some ice dropped into it and milky green tea poured in. Yum! That totally revived us and we went to the Golden Paviliion which turned to be a good move because seeing it as sunset is the most exquisite thing ever.
I also bought a temple book at the 1000 Buddhas temple and had a calligraphy done at each temple we visited. They stamp it for you and then a calligrapher writes the date and the place and maybe something else special.

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posted on Friday, September 18th, 2009 at 5:40 pm.