Walking around Kyoto isn’t half-bad and it’s really quite nice if you take a route through the back streets away from the six-lane avenues.

I like the rusty contrast to the shiny downtown glass.


And the way the Japanese have of making their garbage look packaged. (As opposed to what they have on exhibit at the Kyoto National Museum.)


The how suddenly a shrine will crop up unannounced.


Along with a two-hundred-year-old samurai haunt.

But there’s no escaping it, Amazon rules the world.
