We didn't dream it all!

[telophase]

gryfeathr's in Kyoto now, and I gave her directions to the mysterious kitsune shrine rachelmanija and I found. After a phone email of "We can't find it!" that had me wondering how much more mysterious this shrine could get, she and her companion/s managed to find it, and she sent me a picture from her phone.





Slightly less overgrown at the moment than when we were there at the end of summer, but still nicely mysterious. :D You can see the two torii gates and the small wooden shelter with benches, and then the kitsune statue just beyond it. The hill-like structure with the mysterious wooden door chained shut is just beyond that, but you can't see it here.

ETA: Rachel links to our reports of the shrine and the photo gallery of it in this post.

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Cool! :D

The basic directions are:

1) go to the Giouji Temple (http://www.giouji.or.jp) in Arashimaya. There's a map on the site, but it may be easier to just grab a cab. Go visit the temple and marvel at the gorgeous moss gardens (optional, but highly recommended).

2) After visiting the temple, exit. It's on a small street that dead-ends into the temple. Walk back down that street until it hits the cross-street.

3) Turn left. There may be signs nearby pointing the way down the left to a doll museum. That's the direction you want to go. Walk down the street a short way. You'll find, on the left side, a small craft-selling place with a few small buildings that have very nice but expensive pottery and other crafts. Go poke around in there (optional but recommended if you like looking at that sort of thing).

4) Keep walking down the street. Just after the craft-shops area, still on the left, is a clump of trees. There's a concrete torii with rocks on top, and a little further in, two orange torii gates. That's the shrine. It's not too far from Giouji Temple, just a couple minutes' walk, and it may even be across the street from the doll museum.