花灯路

Last Friday in Kyoto an event started called "Hana Touro" in which they light up the streets of old Kyoto with a bunch of different old laterns, and the temples in the area are all open late with illuminations of their own. Since Friday was White Day (Valentine's Day for girls since in Japan on actual Valentine's Day guys do nothing) Keiko and I headed down to Kyoto to take in the sights. It was a little rainy, but the rain died off pretty quickly and the night air was cool and refreshing.

The illumination was quite the sights as well. It's always a bit of a time slip heading to that neck of Kyoto, but this night in particular as fire lit the way instead of electric light. It's about as close as you can get to how it probably looked in that area about 100 years ago. If you're in the area it's running until the 25th or so I think.