Our plane wasn't scheduled to leave
until evening, so we decided to see one more thing before we left
Kyoto. We settled on Nijo castle, which once housed a
Tokugawa shogun. Bobby read that it was a castle designed to make
your guests fell imprisoned. It had a lot of nightingale floors, as
well as elaborately painted wall panels, all of which we were not
allowed to photograph. We had to leave our shoes at the door, which
is normal at temples, but this was the first shoes-off castle I
visited. The gardens included a neat pond with concrete stepping
stones. After we left the castle, we went to a ramen restaurant. I
had eaten ramen previously, but we had not been to a ramen
restaurant. The food was wonderful; a nice goodbye Japan.
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| The gate to Nijo castle |
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| The main structure |
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| A heron in the gardens |
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| I guess they serve crab |
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