Tales of the Traveling K

One of the most popular places for hanami is Kyoto. Within Kyoto, Maruyama park is one of the most popular hanami sites. Last weekend, some friends and I went to Kyoto for a day of cherry blossom viewing, and ended up at a night festival in Yasaka shrine and Maruyama park.

I began the day with Kristin and Kelly near Nanzen-ji. We walked down an out-of-use railroad, to a new pond with a waterfall.



Next up was the Philosopher's Path, which I walked with my mom 2 years ago, but when we came it was not the spring, so I had never seen it with the sakura in bloom. The entire walk is lined with sakura trees.


We then took the train back to Yasaka shrine, where we discovered a festival we didn't know would be happening. We got a whole lot of food, including candied strawberries, which were amazingly delicious. We followed the festivities into Maruyama park.

There we saw the lit-up cherry trees, found a few other Kansai Gaidai students, and had even more food! On our way home, we were lucky and saw two maiko dancing under the trees.

Posted by K. Raila at 4:58 AM Comments