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Distance
13.31 mi
Elevation gain
1,873 ft
Technical difficulty
Moderate
Elevation loss
1,719 ft
Max elevation
960 ft
TrailRank 
66
Min elevation
198 ft
Trail type
One Way
Moving time
5 hours 39 minutes
Time
9 hours 46 minutes
Coordinates
3722
Uploaded
March 31, 2023
Recorded
March 2023
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near Fukakusa, Kyoto (Japan)

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Stage of the Kyoto isshu Trail. Beautiful in spring with cherry blossoms. The route is partly inside a forest and partly inside the city. Visit to the imperial house with a beautiful garden, as well as that of the last temple. The difference in altitude is wrong, it's up and down,
The Silver Pavilion
Ginkaku-ji, Kyoto, Japan
The Ginkaku-ji, literally the Silver Pavilion, was born as a private residence of the shogun Yoshimasa, a "villa" on the Higashiyama hill which he had already been thinking about building since 1460, but on which work only began in 1482, because in the meantime Kyoto was devastated by the Onin War (1467-77), a civil war which saw the city itself as a battlefield and which shocked it more than anything else.
The shogun probably began living here in 1485, when he became a Zen monk (Yoshimasa, just like his grandfather Yoshimizu, gave a strong impulse to Japanese Zen philosophy) but unlike his predecessor, who was a man of action, he limited himself to being a spectator of the bloody revolts that occurred under his "reign".

Where the tea ceremony was born
Ginkaku-ji, Kyoto, Japan
Of the living pavilions the Tokudo remains, where there is a small square room called Dojinsai, which is the prototype of shoin, the study of the Zen monks and where the shogun kept his books, here there is also a beautiful staggered shelf and from this by opening the shoji one can he admired the beautiful garden and let himself go into meditation. It is also here that the consumption of macha tea was made into something ritual and meditative, giving life to the famous tea ceremony.

Unmissable on your trip to Kyoto
Ginkaku-ji, Kyoto, Japan In 1489 the Kannon-den was completed, the main structure, the one that history tells us, in honor of his grandfather Yoshimitsu, who had covered Kinkaku-ji with gold leaf, it had to be covered with silver foil; the structure has two floors and dedicates the second to the simulacra of the Gods.
Upon Yoshimasa's death in 1490, as per his wishes, this retreat became a temple taking the name of Jisho-ji. Compared to the architecture of the past, the structures of this temple were more rustic, less affected and perfect, just like the Zen philosophy of this moment suggested.
For now we have been there twice alone around mid-September and early April in full hanami, and then many times with our groups traveling to Japan and we admired the apparent simplicity and grace of the structure and the its adjacent Zen garden where we all notice a cone representing Mount Fuji and clearings "combed" to represent the sea, as often happens in front of gardens of this type we are faced with an abstraction of Japan itself; over time I could not help but observe, within myself, that so much perfection, apparently immobile and static, must certainly be at the mercy of atmospheric agents and therefore the constant work of man which perpetuates itself over the centuries identical to itself. In addition to this part of the dry garden, there is one where water and pine trees are the masters, the architect of this landscape masterpiece was the great Sōami
Jisho-ji continues to host Japanese culture in its classic expressions such as No theater, tea ceremony or the art of ink painting.
The philosopher's walk
Philosopher's Road, Kyoto, Japan
The Temple is located at the northern end of the so-called philosopher's road, a path surrounded by cherry trees that philosophy professor Nishida Kitaro walked along immersed in his thoughts in the years in which he was a teacher and exponent of the so-called Kyoto school, if you are in For hanami you absolutely have to walk through Kyoto, even if there will inevitably be a lot of people, even walking there in other seasons, however, gives its own pleasure, the walk takes about thirty minutes and is full of ideas for visits.
Along this path there are, in fact, numerous temples including the Honen-in, the Shinto sanctuary of Otoyo-jinia, where I was amazed to see a small temple dedicated to a deity in the guise of Mouse and another dedicated to the Fox; and Eikan-jo is also worth a detour, which with its pagoda on the hill gives us a beautiful view of the city.

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