all right good morning people good morning we are in Kyoto and
reserved whispering because it is so early today is literally at 4:30 in the
morning we set our alarm it is now 5:20 yep and we're up this early because
we're going to be visiting fushimi-inari taisha (伏見稲荷大社)
which is that famous shrine with the 10,000 red gates (伏見稲荷大社) the torii yeah yeah and
the time to visit apparently is as early as possible as early as you can because
it gets very crowded yeah we have to take the train we have to take it a
couple trains there and yeah we're just walking to the station at the moment
alright guys so we have made it to an RA station it was just five minutes from
Kyoto station which is the central train station here in the city and yeah we
came here on the Nara line and one thing that I'm finding super interesting about
the station here in re station is that it's painted kind of like this oranjee
red just like the 20 gates that we're gonna be visiting
if you guys are wondering what summer in Japan is like listen to this these are
the cicadas
so it begins we are entering the pack lined with Tories the torii gates
apparently there's 10,000 of them here just not and in this stretch the Tories
are like really close to each other sometimes you only have like a few lone
metres in between sometimes a few centimeters but yeah they are densely
packed here let's talk about why we got here so some of you may be wondering
like why on earth did you get up that early and there's two really good
reasons firstly it is in the thick of summer right now yeah are in the middle
of July meaning the weather is disgustingly hot
and humid maybe even and so to get here before it gets really really hot and
humid it was a huge priority the second reason is just to beat the crowds
apparently from like seven eight onwards it gets really really busy here so we
arrived and you know what we've been walking for a while it's still 6:45
right now we're doing great doing great and we've seen people but not too many
yeah so it's been wonderful we've definitely had sections where it's just
been us for a little while yeah and I have to say it's actually quite cool in
here because of the falling intonation yes please you've got like a little
stream trip nearby I mean I'm still sweating but not as much as I thought I
wouldn't okay so now to give you a bit of information about this place
so this shrine is dedicated to Inari who is the goddess of rice but she's also
the patron of agriculture and a business a lot of people come here to pray for
their businesses to do well and in the shrine you'll also notice these stone
statues of foxes the foxes are meant to be Inari's messengers and one of the
foxes has a key in its mouth it's like biting down onto a key and this was
meant to be the key to the grain storage so ya know you know a little bit more
about this shrine upon research what I found to be the most fascinating about
these torii gates first of all there's over 10,000 of them
mmm it's incredible each of them have been donated by
their company or an individual who has the individuals or company's name
inscribed line and on the other side is the date so that's really fascinating I
know that's a lot of donations yes and apparently they donate the gate when
they want a wish to come true or it already has so yeah yeah that's quite
fascinating over 10,000 so along the way you have these little stops with these
small little shrines you can see miniature torii gates as well as little
foxes so yeah in a way this offers a nice
little break you can stop here and rest and yeah we're also seeing a lot of
stray cats who live here on the mountain this mountain is called Inari just like
the shrine so a little bit of information that we just spotted a sign
that said that wild boars have been spotted in the area and not to approach
them if you come across them at night so now you know wild boars
roam through these mountains it has such a little head
we have reached the end of line for us for us anyways in the summer yeah we
have we found a really nice lookout point the great views of Kyoto yes and
yeah I can win a gold medal and disgusting sweaty man I'm sweaty
everywhere in places I haven't been sweaty before the humidity is out of
control in the summer and also I'm just doing a little dance here because the
mosquitoes are like eating us alive bring repellents if you come in summer
it's been greedy I mean we yes we've gone up a considerable ways
considering yeah you know it is the summer and I wanted to see the views and
I wanted to go as far as this point but I'd like to reach up to the top it's
just it's not happening yeah it's just not so anyways we hope you've enjoyed
what you've seen so far of fushimi-inari taisha (伏見稲荷大社)
yeah we're gonna head back down and that should be beautiful as well because
we've got more dates coming up yeah we'll be flowing it show us Sam show us
where we are oh my gosh you made you look up play all that hard work and
that's only where we going I dressed like yeah this is the fall
easily could make it all the way to the top but in summer in the middle of
summer this is uh this is an accomplished
taking a picture and guys we're here really early but if you come a little
later on in the day there's pretty interesting menu there's different kinds
of food on soba and different set meals fairly reasonably priced we're seeing
things for 500 yen to upwards to 900 well actually a thousand