Cole’s Recap, Day 3 Continued: C directs driver to go to Ryoanji. C explains he loves the rock garden. B excited. Exit taxi. Buy tickets. Enter temple grounds. Beautiful. Follow C to rock garden. Enter building. Remove shoes. More slippers. Comfy slippers. Pictures of garden. It is beautiful. BKCV sit in sun. View dragon painting on sliding doors. Walk around the building. Buy post cards. Exit building housing rock garden. Stroll through grounds. Mossy. Sunshine. Stone pagoda. Plumb blossoms. Pass yudofu restaurant. C explains it’s a special kind of Kyoto tofu. C postpones lunch. Continue wandering through grounds. Return to entrance. Buy cocoa in a cup. Sit on bench. Drink. Snacks. Delicious. Exit temple grounds.
Things to Know:
*Ryoan-ji is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan
*The temple is the site of Japan’s most famous rock garden
*It is so famous that the name has become synonymous with Japanese rock gardens worldwide
*The garden is composed of raked gravel and fifteen moss-covered boulders of different sizes
*It is said that only 14 of these can be seen from any one place in the temple
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