Japan travel: Kyoto trip to Kiyomizu dera, Fushimi Inari and Kinkakuji

I was a bit behind schedule since I had to recharge my phone and power bank, because without all of those, I will be so lost.

Itinerary:

1. Kiyomizu dera

2. Chion in

3. Kinkakuji

4. Fushimi inari

5. Arashiyama (did not make it).

10 AM from my hostel, J Hoppers take 207 to Kiyomizu dera. Stop at Kiyomizudera mae. Follow the crowd, and you will have to go walk up hill for about 15/20 minutes to get to Kitomizu dera. The entrace for the terrace is 300 yen. I think the best time to see the view around is during fall, the momiji will be superb.

Then I went down, and headed to Yasaka Shrine, where I met English speaking geisha (who are tourist but rent kimono and make up to be geisha lol). It was interesting. Then I went to Chion in, which is one of the temple owned by Tokugawa. 

I originally planned to go eat lunch at Nishiki market and ate dessert at Tsujiri, but the sky was cloudy and I decided to go to Kinkakuji instead. Take a walk a bit and then took bus numbet 50 towards kinkakuji. 

I arrived at Kinkakuji at 4 pm and the people were so crowded. Took a picture of the temple and then wanted to go to Fushimi inari. It was almost dawn, so the lighting wasn't the best, but I decided yo get sunset photo there. Not good, since Fushimi inari is a mountain, it gets dark easily. I gave up and then wanted to try to go to Arashiyama since from Inari station, it is nearer if I went to Arashiyama by train. However, I pushed my luck too far and stopped at the wrong station so I got very late at Arashiyama, not to mention my handphone baterry was dead so I didn't know where to go to the bamboo path. So I gave up at around 9 pm (after lost and since Kyoto is a small city, there are no people near Arashiyama after 9 pm). And I didn't research enough to know where the bamboo path was, either its across from the bridge or near Nonomiya temple? (Ps: it was near nonomiya, toukakuji temple. Very near from JR Sagaarashiyama station. 15 minutes walk.)

I took bus number 11 and went back to J hoppers. 

Lesson from my half failed trip: 

It is possible to go to Kiyomizu dera, Kinkakuji, and Fushimi inari. But not Arashiyama since it was a bit further away from the city. Well maybe you can, if you use taxi. 

Tips: 

If you will take more than 3 time bus, get the one day buss pass. All bus have flat rate 230 yen and the day pass is 500 yen. I think its cheaper than buy the aight seeing bus.