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We are currently just walking around Kyoto station and I happen to find the
stairs from snafu and what I think is the exact spot on a couple of students
took a selfie with Kyoto tower in the background
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we grabbed some food and hopped on to the luggage train choo choo but due to some
track maintenance we walked back to the station to hitch a ride to the Arashiyama
monkey park but in order to board the train we had to answer a skill testing
question as we walked along the Togetsu-kyō bridge towards the park I realized
that we must be standing in the very same spot that served as the backdrop
for hiki and Hayato's argument but sadly there is no way for us to get
down to the spot so he pushed onward through some of the most beautiful
scenery Kyoto has to offer [Music]
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't slightly nervous to meet the monkeys
After paying the incredibly cheap entrance fee of 500 yen and completing the 30-minute hike up
the mountain we finally caught a glimpse of our first monkey this stop was sort
of just one for the boys so despite the light music club from K-On! on taking a
trip here we didn't go out of our way to line up any shots but the god of
romantic comedies wasn't being his usual self today because we happen to film
some pretty familiar shots [Music]
He reached right in there
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you know they say don't meet your heroes well that definitely holds true if your hero happens to be a forest of bamboo
this was actually one of my highest anticipated stops in Kyoto and I
couldn't wait to recreate the scene for my teen romantic comedy snafu but if I
had to choose two words to describe the arashiyama bamboo grove it would be
overcrowded and underwhelming even on a weekday you could hardly stop to take a
photo let alone try to recreate shots from a show
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if you really want to check it out yourself I'd recommend going sometime
after 10:00 p.m. when the rest of the weebs are at home in bed with their
body pillows
unlike Tokyo or Osaka getting around by public transit in Kyoto is a little
tricky so by the time we got some food and made it to the famous fushimi-inari
taisha gates the Sun was beginning to set after our experience at the bamboo
grove I was expecting to run into similar issues here but to our surprise
that really wasn't too many people and we're about to find out why
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having done essentially zero research we only came here because we thought seeing
the famous ten thousand gates would be neat we had no idea that there's
actually a whopping thirty two thousand gates laid out in a maze-like pattern
that takes over two hours to walk through we truly were having our own
test of courage despite stumbling around in the dark
listening to monkeys howl in the trees we did manage to make a few friends
along the way the lookout had an incredible view of the city and gave us an idea of what to do next
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with Ari's embarrassing attempt at winning us a tawawa chan we settled
for the view of downtown Kyoto
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