Today we went Arashiyama’s monkey park, where they have macaque monkeys roaming around. We got there early, so had to wait for it to open. There was a heron on the river bank.

The monkeys are able roam around the park.

There were some babies sticking close to their mothers.

This was the oldest monkey in the park.

You can go inside the building and feed the monkeys.

The next stop was Arashiyama’s Bamboo Grove.

Next it was on to the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji).

The buses were crowded.

We headed to Nijo Castle. Here is an umbrella stand, that lets you lock up your umbrella. Gillian needed one of these in Hiroshima, where someone took her hotel loaner umbrella from a stand outside of a 7-11.

We ended the day geisha spotting in a small neighbourhood in Kyoto.

These were magnets on the back of the hotel door. Depending on which service you wanted you would put the magnet on the door.