Kioto, ¿La ciudad MÁS LINDA de Japón?

Kioto fue antiguamente la capital de Japón, hoy es uno de los destinos más visitados de este país, por su famosos bosque de bambú y su templo de los Torii. En este video recorremos los atractivos principales de la ciudad.

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Hello hello. How are they? Welcome to Kyoto today we have just arrived in Kyoto First impressions: it is a very touristy city! But we are very excited to visit it, we want to visit it and well let’s see what we find today we came to the Imperial Palace of Kyoto

It was the home of the emperors until 1869, then the capital was moved to Tokyo. In reality they don’t let you enter anywhere, there is a whole circuit set up and it’s all fenced and you have to follow the herd to go around… Nothing! I mean, you can see everything from afar

But well, the East Palace was actually burned and rebuilt many times The structure that exists now is from 1855 AD and it was the last time it was rebuilt But no, they don’t let you see it except from the outside . Everything is closed!

The main palace closed, the houses next to it also closed. It already seemed strange to us that it was free, that was already strange, a palace like that for free! and then we realized. Let’s see, it’s very nice, it has a beautiful garden

. You can’t really walk through it peacefully. For example, you can’t walk through the garden or anything. Because it’s all fenced and you can’t get in. But it was nice. It has a beautiful park outside full of trees. I wouldn’t say it’s worth coming to Kyoto just to see this!

Because they are not going to see anything But there is a lot to explore So let’s see! Let’s see what awaits us where we can go. Since we started our trip This has been the place where we have met the most tourists and a lot of people who speak Spanish everywhere.

It is full, full of people for everything! You go to a castle, it’s full of people. Yeah! Everything was full of people. Well, Himeji Castle was also tremendous. But anyway, we are staying in an area halfway away from the center and we have a window in the hotel

That looks out onto a Japanese garden, parenthesis!! Divine! It’s not a hotel! Well it’s a hotel but a love hotel A love hotel HAHA it turns out that they are on booking.com As a hotel! and you book and you go… And when you arrive you realize that it is a high turnover hotel

So there are noises and strange things But the advantage we have is that we are in a beautiful area, a quiet neighborhood We have a spectacular view out the window and the room is huge now later we are going to show it to you! But it is very, very big,

And well, as always, the bicycles are here alone. Look at what a beautiful bicycle. It reminds me of cartoons, of anime, eh, Juliet? Yeah! Yes, everyone rides with baskets on their bicycles and with baby things, to carry to their children! Yes, everyone rides this type of bicycle.

It’s super strange, because that’s the style of bicycle here. You see the older people, those who go to school, high school and they all ride that style of bicycle. It’s very crazy! It reminds me of cartoons and anime. We are fascinated, but fascinated with the Japanese people with the Japanese!

They are spectacular, but really. They are kind. I don’t know if we already said it or if we didn’t say it, but we have to repeat it again. We really came with expectations… I think we were talking about it for several days. You come to Japan with very high expectations, right?

That Japan is technology no matter how you look at it and the truth is that it is not like that. Maybe in Tokyo yes, we haven’t arrived yet. But in the rest it is not like that.

It is very quiet, everything is normal like in any other city. There is even a lot of peace. There isn’t much technology or anything, so on that side I think it disappoints you a little “in quotes” But the people… The people are Fabulous The Japanese are the best!

I don’t know how to describe it, they are friendly, they are nice. Yes, you come with expectations, as Julieta said that the people, in what is a country that is known as a cold country, like a capitalist country, a laborer,

Who get like that, they get like horses like that. They go ahead and work and they don’t think ehh… they don’t have time for love, nor does one think at all that they are very dry people. But… They are divine , hospitality is such an innate part of the Japanese, let’s say.

That there is always hospitality in everything. An example is that tips are not left here. Because precisely they consider that good service is an act that has to be like that , it is not something that you do to be rewarded

But it is something that has to be like that. They always have to give the best service, always, always. So the tip for them is an offense Because in reality it is part of their culture to provide that good service and to always be impeccable and taking care of everything

So it is not well seen to tip here in Japan Another French traveler, who we met in the Philippines, had already told us , you are going to ask the Japanese anything and they are never going to say no, they never say no to you, nor that they can’t help you.

What they tell you is that they don’t know, or I don’t know or I don’t know or I don’t know. Then the Frenchman tells me: don’t waste time, when they tell you “I don’t know” it means no. Because they will never say no to you, they will always want to help you.

It also happened to me the other day when I went to buy a chip for the phone. I asked the girl who was there. I asked him if he had a chip, he said no. that there was a house above. And I don’t speak English and she didn’t speak English to understand us….

And I tell her but where is the other house? He motioned to me on the stairs up. Well, I made the whole model for him, did I do this and that? Yeah! First floor? -Yeah! Then I say second floor? -Yeah! He told me everything yes

But since they don’t know. or they don’t understand you, they say yes but it’s to help you, they don’t say no. They never say no to you, that’s what I’ve been telling you. They never say no to you! -they tell you: yes, yes. -There, there: yes yes yes yes

And in the end they don’t understand you Yes, communication is very difficult, because I think the translator doesn’t translate well either. Sometimes you write something to them and they don’t understand you. I don’t know what he translates.

I don’t know that his way of expressing himself is different and they don’t understand it. I don’t know… it’s just that Google translator doesn’t translate well into Japanese, they look at it like that and don’t understand it And something that seemed very, very strange to me is that they don’t speak much English

That surprised me, I thought it was going to be a country that everyone spoke English, a country with its second language of English, but I was surprised that there are not many people who speak English, not to me, not to me! Because actually I’m more of the believer

Why do they have to speak English? They are Japanese, they speak in Japanese! Why would they speak English? It doesn’t surprise me when they don’t really speak English. Not me either because we don’t speak English. But it’s strange that such a touristy country, which is full of foreigners

And with the communication that they have with the world, doesn’t English is taught in schools , it is taught, but older people don’t speak and there are many 20-year-olds who don’t speak either. All the supermarkets here and the stores The seveneleven 7/11 all have a lot of comics, anime magazines

And many have magazines Also… look! triple x, for… It is very common. This is a seveneleven 7/11, which is open 24 hours and everyone has it, everyone has it. The old people come, open them and look at them here in front of everyone, very calm. Yes in Japan porn is very naturalized… Very!!

We came to one of the most famous places in Kyoto but we are going to show you the reality so that you do not be fooled by those idyllic photos on Instagram and on social networks. It’s all a lie! Look, look what this is, for God’s sake. This is the famous bamboo forest.

Look, what this tourism thing is. The forest itself is beautiful, right? -yes it is beautiful! But you can’t enjoy it with all this amount of people. It’s impossible to see it. It’s impossible to enjoy it as it deserves . We’re all here. We would all like to be alone, but we can’t.

Look at this! No, it is impossible to take the iconic photo here. It is impossible. Now we found a little space here, there is no one, look! Well there are people, but very few! Very few people but it’s crazy how many people there are here. Now it’s kind of raining

And they’re starting to leave. When it started to rain we said: this is our moment!! People are starting to leave. Nothing is spectacular about this place, apart from it being super famous here in Kyoto but there is a lot of tourism, we haven’t seen as much as here, not tremendous!

At least the entrance is full of people, here it is a little quieter because it is very big so there are little places or gaps for those idyllic photos on social networks But the forest itself is beautiful,

Well here we went down a little street to get out back There is peace in the park , there is no one , it is very big, look at all those mountains in the background. Can you imagine how beautiful it would be to live in one of these houses ? How nice

To have flowers like that in a garden, flowers and trees, how divine, this is a peace alone. noise of birds, crickets As soon as you leave the tourist path a little bit, that is, the marked path where all the people go and you find that you can enjoy it much more calmly

And this river is ideal to come and have some mates Julieta there, look!! That side seems to me to be prettier and bigger but how pretty With all the mountains in the background and look at the river of people there Another river of people over there

There is a river of water and a river of people more river of people over there here This is impressive! Today we start the day in another of the most popular places in Kyoto, which is the Fushimi Inari temple.

It is a Shinto shrine dedicated to Inari, who was considered the protector of business. This part will be well known to you, because it is in all the postcards from Japan It’s the place where they have the little red “doors” called Tori Well, this is a Tori this is a miniature of Tori

Here they hang them as offerings, it’s full of hanging Tori with people’s names written on them and they play them here for luck, Shintoism is a religion originally from Japan. It is said to be the indigenous religion of Japan and along with Buddhism, it is one of the two most practiced.

To enter we pass through the first Tori Tori is that door, it is a traditional Japanese door It represents the transition from the mundane to the sacred So whenever you enter a Shinto temple, you will find these doors. Yes, in all the temples of this style there are those doors at the entrance

And we have also seen many doors that point towards the nature that I also take as the entrance to the sacred, to the natural. That’s what it means! Of course it is a door that leads to a forest, you look at it and say: what is that door doing there?

But it is like the entrance to the natural, to the sacred and there we begin to find more and more many many And all these doors have their history because we told you that this temple is dedicated to Inari Inari was considered the patron saint of business

And although initially She was a protector of crops, especially rice. Over the years she has become a protective symbol of business. Then all the merchants asked her and gave her offerings in exchange for doing well in their businesses. and all these Tori have been donated by companies, families, businesses, individuals

Who have done well in their businesses. So they donate a Tori which today is what characterizes these temples to this place more than anything because in this place there are many Tori Yes here there are too many and that is what people come to, to look at the toris and take photos

Good here There are the smallest ones. the most famous It is a river of people, but it is beautiful. You can see that there are some that are very old because they were all moth-eaten at the bottom, all rotten.

You can see that they are taking them out and changing them or perhaps adding more to the back. We haven’t arrived yet But look here there is one, look how it is , you can see that there was one here, look at what was left of

The trunk, on one side and the other. This would be a map of how everything is distributed here in the mountain, we are just here and look at everything that’s missing. It’s huge . It’s huge . There must be fewer people higher up, it seems to me.

There are a lot of older people left here. At the first break, we continue climbing about two million steps and we find these views of the city . Kyoto city views and rain and we continue! All these sacred paths of Tori

Lead to small temples, small altars where people come to make their offerings inside that little room they sell Toris and people write them down and then apparently they offer them here yes!! there are like many altars yes! Besides, it has like a lake behind, there you can see the forest lake. It’s raining!

Maybe we are not getting wet because there is a lot of vegetation and so far we have not been touched by rain. I don’t know, it has a mystical air to be here among all the trees and with so many sanctuaries,

But I can say that it is a place where It feels like a lot of peace! like an energy like that, very peaceful, very natural and lots and lots of vegetation. This is also to show a little what’s behind all those photos with the red “tori” doors. Well, this is what’s here!

Well, we already visited the temple of a thousand Toris, super colorful, super cute, we highly recommend it . There were quite a few people, like in all the places here. But we loved it. At least I loved it . Julieta was fascinated. She took all the photos she wanted

. I could, not that I wanted to! She had me like a slave to her feet, taking photos, photos, photos, photos. I couldn’t look at anything! Only the cell phone and the camera lie!! what a misfortune and well… now come with us, we are going to go to the Gion neighborhood.

Those are the little streets of Gion Gion? Gion, Gion! The traditional neighborhood, all the architecture is old. In reality, it is quite touristy like everything else. But we took the opportunity to get into one of the streets that are on the sides and there is no one, look at this!!!

It’s incredible, we still can’t believe there’s no one there! It’s like there’s all the tumult back there, all the people , and there’s no one here! No! The same thing happens here everywhere, you go down a street far from the main one and there is no one!

Yes, that’s what surprises us a lot because I don’t know, it’s like they all accumulate in one place and you just go out a little bit and the landscape changes 100% the place changes 100% There is no one or very few people anymore I understand. It’s very curious, but oh well!

Yes, like what happened to us in the bamboo forest. You went a little off the main paths and there was no one there! It’s like people go, they accumulate and photo and photo and photo and they want a photo Photo photo Photo photo Photo

That’s it, I think that what people are looking for is the photo And that’s it! because really, really Any road you go near is empty and where the photos are taken you feel like you are walking like cattle watching the beast come Oh oh the beast, the beast

Calm down, calm down little one! He’s going to kill someone haha ​​Oh because he has a dog in the baby stroller, there! Aahh are you fucking with me? Yes, it has a but in the baby stroller . That’s something else, come on! I don’t know why, but…

Here we have seen that they walk their dogs a lot in baby strollers, yes they are their babies, they are their babies!! And where did it go? in Okayama? We saw a lady walking a Snowy Owl in a baby stroller, who had it as a pet.

These are those things from Japan, that you say only happen here! Well!! Look this is our room here the entrance We enter, we have the room as such an armchair Table! There is even a cabinet to store clothes We have a microwave… Mirror on the ceiling HAHA

Here are some cups and some plates Here is a frigobar refrigerator with things that you can buy and you can use that bottom part for free! Then look what it is, how big it is. the bed, a dehumidifier, a television, which to use you have to pay a card which is recharged!

And look at this window. Look at the view we have of a spectacular Japanese garden! You close this window, then you close this, and you are left with everything, everything, everything closed, then the bed area with all its normal things, which you can find in a hotel of this style from radio…

Light levelers, scarves , many things even a massager and well, nothing… here they leave the towels, robes, everything and over here we have the sink part with a lot of things that give you more of a mirror and over here the shower!! We go in and we have that terrible bathtub

They leave you shower salts and a lot of things and the keychain is here. Also with shampoo, conditioner, soap and everything to use. That is the shower area and here we have the bathroom , the bathroom with obviously a smart toilet, like everyone here in Japan and well, this is our hotel room