

{"id":283,"date":"2025-05-21T00:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/?p=283"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:53:35","slug":"8-kyoto-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/2025\/05\/21\/8-kyoto-area\/","title":{"rendered":"8 &#8211; Kyoto (area)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After Osaka we traveled over to Kyoto. On the way we stopped at a Matcha (tea) mecca in Uji. While there we hiked around a bit (since we didn&#8217;t see much there except for a street selling everything Matcha &#8211; Grace tried Matcha Soba, and the kids had Matcha ice cream). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_035236070-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_035236070-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_035236070-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_035236070-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_035236070-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_035236070-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_035236070-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_045110647-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_045110647-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_045110647-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_045110647-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_045110647-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_045110647-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_045110647-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_050953844-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_050953844-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_050953844-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_050953844-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_050953844-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_050953844-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_053500474-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_053500474-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_053500474-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_053500474-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_053500474-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_053500474-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_054158038-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_054158038-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_054158038-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_054158038-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_054158038-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250516_054158038-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was raining the next day so we headed down to Arashiyama where the girls got dressed in Kimonos (a LOT of people do this, and it seems that it&#8217;s not just the foreigners &#8211; we saw people in every major city dressed in Kimonos walking around).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_085518078-1-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_085518078-1-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_085518078-1-edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_085518078-1-edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_085518078-1-edited-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_085518078-1-edited-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_085518078-1-edited-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_095100094.MP_-1-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_095100094.MP_-1-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_095100094.MP_-1-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_095100094.MP_-1-edited-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_095100094.MP_-1-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_095100094.MP_-1-edited-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_095100094.MP_-1-edited-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/files\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250517_095100094.MP_-1-edited-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Osaka we traveled over to Kyoto. On the way we stopped at a Matcha (tea) mecca in Uji. While there we hiked around a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/2025\/05\/21\/8-kyoto-area\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">8 &#8211; Kyoto (area)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/paulspicts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}