Whereas we walked everywhere yesterday, today we picked a few destinations that were a bit further outside of the city that would require a few trains. The Arashiyama bamboo forest — something I have been wanting to see for a very long — was the first on my list for the day.

These gates go all the way up the mountain. There's over 1,000 of them.

We then made our walk back to central Kyoto to catch a dinner reservation at Manzaratei Nishiki — a highly-recommended restaurant with Japanese-based dishes mixed with other Asian and European influences.