Yours Truly, Aiko

Happy 2020 peeps~! Can't believe it is 2020 now, like THE wawasan 2020 is here already. Feeling old Ohmaigawddddd... Finally going to start with Nara chapter. After being on hiatus for quite some time. Honest speaking I really hope I can finish blogging my first Japan trip in 2018 which was like so long ago. Not to mention I visited Japan again in the same 2018 (which is yet to be blogged) and Okinawa in 2019 as well. Can't wait to share that I am going to Tokyo very very soon! For sakura-viewing! For Hanami (sakura viewing in japanese lol)!! This will be my very first time in visiting Tokyo, the Metropolitan city of Japan OMG, some more during hanami season (praying hard that the crowd will not kill me). Adding another point: first time taking ANA Airline! Okay, i guess i got diverted to my excitement of the yet coming Tokyo trip which is in March. Let's go on reminiscing Nara trip first. LOCATION: NARA PARK We took a short half day trip to Nara after we checke...

You can read part one here . On day 3 I finally went to the place that I wanted to visit most in Kyoto: the Thousand Torii Gates of Fushimi Inari Taisha! LOCATION: Fushimi Inari Taisha 伏見稲荷大社 Did you know Torii gates (鳥居) are said to be gateway to the sacred place? Fushimi Inari shrine worships the Inari God, with foxes as the messengers. You can find fox statues at various location in this shrine (which amazed me, I love foxes).  A Torii (鳥居) gate on the way to Fushimi Inari Taisha Fox statue! Another one! By the way, I never knew that in order to see the thousand torii gates, I need to hike up flights of stairs... Why no one tell me that the gates trailed up to a mountain! Nevertheless, the view was worth the hike (I did not manage to finish the hike though, it really requires good stamina!!). Lucky for us, the crowd was not too overwhelming during our visit. At least I got to capture some pictures of the gates with no photobomb. Senbon Torii...