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Here are also a couple bad photos of the statues. (Depending on your computer the second and third photos might be too dark, but
just imagine a big Buddha there.)

Daibutsuden in Todai-ji, where the statues were.

It started raining mightily that day, but to Rokuon-ji Temple we still went. Here's a photo of Kinkaku (Golden Pavilion).

Umbrellas~ (Told you it was a field day.)

The garden of Nijo Castle.

Then we went to Kasuga Shrine (Shinto shrine wohoo~) which even had Shrine Maidens for me to go fangirlish over but I didn't get to
take a photo of them. >_> Still, here's some pretty building (and a deer) I saw by the road.

It smelled human flesh, run! D8

By the road were also tons of stone lanterns that lead to the shrine. Mom snapped a photo of them as well as a random shiisa.

I can't come up with an interesting summary for this.

A pretty sight at the same Shinto shrine. It's really too bad we only visited one, I found it a lot more interesting than the Buddha ones.

The next two days were spent wandering around Kyoto. At the Kyoto station were these Osamu Tezuka themed info tables/timetables/whatever
they were (among other Tezuka things, but I don't have a photo of those).

To our great surprise we found absolutely wonderful shopping districts (Shinkyogoku and Teramachi) in Kyoto and spent the next
two days there. These are from the food market Nishiki.

Mom bought this icecream-pancake-fruit thing, but unexpectedly it was served rolled like an ice cream cone. Don't know what
they're called, they could be very common too but hey, it was a new thing to us.

Found my new home~ (And boy I look stupid~)
Sadly had no time to actually be there, but if nothing else I know where to go if I need to spend a night in Kyoto. XD

Yeah, even Happy Meals were anime themed. >8I Damn you Japan for being awesome.
And yes, saved the cup. Like I could have left it.

For some reson mom was fascinated by how the menus all food places put outside to attract customers had plastic examples of
food with them.

...And then we went and found Mini-Cafe Sinivalkoinen. XD Lol'd at it our time (for anyone not familiar with Finnish it's Finnish for
"blue-white", Finland's national colors, and yes we're from Finland), and after a while decided to check it out just to see what it was like.
It really was a mini-cafe, only room for two or three little tables, and stayed there and had a talk with the owners who were happy to have
actual Finns come over (and maybe customers in general, it didn't seem too well-known a place). Apparently it was a Christian cafe and
the Finnish theme was the idea of their Finnish missionary. There was no actual fee for the drinks or cake (which seemed to be all they
served), it was all free, but the point was that there was a little donation box so if you ate and drank something it was appreciated if you
donated a little bit to their church.

When we left the owners kept throwing Finnish phrases at us, like "kiitos" and "moi-moi" and whatever. XD For some reason it was
kinda really sweet, I really wanted to make a bigger donation to them once I got home but so far I haven't found any information of their
cafe or anything on the net. And to you anti-religion people, shut it. I'll gladly donate something to them for that experience.

Another photo I took from the outside, of the stairs that had Finnish phrases to them. To our amusement, when we went inside a couple
hours later and started eating and talking to the owners the old man went "You took a photo from the outside! :D" XD Busted~

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