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I am a 27 year-old woman. Love music, food and Japan!!

2011年10月31日月曜日

Housenin (宝泉院) in Kyoto - a temple with a tasteful garden

Went to Kyoto last week. 
Kyoto is always fantastic, historic, and a relaxing place to me. 
I think Japan has lots of spots that should be boasted to the people all over the world. However, the number of the foreign tourists are ten times smaller than that of France, which is also a good country to visit but the difference of the numbers between Japan and France is much bigger than it should be. One of its reasons is, in my opinion, Japan hasn't been appealing its attractive tourist resources to other countries.

So from now on, I will do that for the country.

Housenin is a temple with a little unique garden, which looks as if it's in a frame like a painting.

↑This is the garden. It really looks like a painting. The two pillars standing beside the big pine tree act like a frame.


↑This pine tree has been living for over 700 years !!!

↑Green tea with a cake. At this time, no one else was here. What a magnificent room !!!

↑This is called Suikinkutu (水琴窟), with which you can enjoy the sound of echo in a bottle. The sound is like metallophone.

Housenin http://www.hosenin.net/index.html (Japanese)
Open 9:00-17:00
187, Ohara Shorinin-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, JAPAN (京都市左京区大原勝林院町187)

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