These two last weekend have been very exciting as I visited new places! First, as my brother suggested me: Naoshima. A small island located in Kagawa-ken and which is know for its contemporary art museum and sites like the Chichu Art Museum and the Benesse House project designed by Tadao Ando.
It took around 2 hours by car to get there with a small ferry boat and we could enjoy most of the main attraction of the island before the sunset... Naoshima is very small and can be visited in a day by car, bike, bicycle or bus. I've made a small selection of pictures like the Chichu Art Museum with the gorgeous view. Some cool animals :P and a Temple with the stairs being built in glass... Enjoy...
Secondly (this last weekend) as my friend Ryoko was coming to visit me in Osaka, we decided to go to Kyoto and enjoy the Autumn Leaves 紅葉 "Kouyou" with its beautiful colors! We first headed to the Fushimi Inari temple, south-east of Kyoto Station. Fushimi Inari is dedicated to the God of Rice (Inari) and the merchants used to build up a sub-shrine for its business wealth. Fushimi Inari is said to have more than 30'000 sub-shrines! It is very impressive as you walk under those shrines with the names of the people who built it. As you can up the hill it never ends...! Finally we could enjoy a small Matsuri on top of it.
To end up our journey we headed to Takao, north-west of Kyoto near Arashiyama (Over-crowded during the Autumn Leaves). There we could enjoy the beautiful colors of Autumn. It is completely unrealistic and it feels like you are walking in a painting... And by night there was a small Koto concert inside the forest. I will post a small video of it soon.
Anyway here are the pictures!
Waou Trop belle tes photos ! C'est drole de revoir les photos de Naoshima. Surtout en étant à Buenos Aires :)
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