ランチの後、再びタクシーに乗って（Uberがとても便利でした）清水寺に向かいましたが、清水寺の近くまで行くととても混んでいるので少し下の方の道で降りて歩く方が早いと思います、と言われそうすることに。15分か20分くらいかかったと思いますが途中たくさんのお店があるのでチラチラ見ながら歩くと苦にならない距離でした。
After lunch we took a taxi again (Uber was very convenient) to Kiyomizu-dera, the driver told us that he thought it would be quicker if we get off at the main road and walked up the hill because the streets were very busy, so that’s what we did. It took us 15 or 20 minutes but there are many little shops/cafes etc along the streets so it didn’t feel very long.
それにしても、かなりな人出でした。海外からの観光客がとても増えたとは聞いていましたが、本当にたくさんの人。
I knew that more and more visitors are coming from overseas but it was really busy with foreign tourists as well as Japanese.
まだまだ暑いくらいなので紅葉はやっと始まったばかり。出来れば、日本を発つ少し前にもう一度京都に行って、もう少し進んだ紅葉を見たいと思います。
As it’s still very warm the leaves have only just started to turn their colours. If we can we would love to go to Kyoto again and see the autumn leaves looking a little more colourful before we leave.
清水寺は本当に見応えがあると思います。閉所恐怖症気味なので人混みは苦手ですが、そこまでの酷い人混みではなかったですし、景色も素晴らしく、疲れましたが楽しかったです。
I feel Kiyomizu-dera is very dramatic and impressive. I don’t normally like being in a crowd but it wasn’t too bad and the scenery was beautiful. We felt a little tired when we got back to Kobe but had a lovely day.
ちなみに、イギリスにいると歩きに出ない限りほとんど歩く機会がないのですが、日本では意識しなくても気がつくとかなり歩いているので、そういう意味でも健康にとても良い国だと思います。車社会のイギリスにいるとちょっと出かけても大した歩数にならないのですが、日本に来てから毎日7,8000歩から10,000歩、今日は12,872歩も歩きました。よく歩く方からすると大した歩数ではないと思いますが、わたしにとっては結構な歩数で嬉しい限り。
When we are in England, I hardly walk and my step-count is awful unless we make a point of going out ‘to walk’. Here, we aren’t going specially ‘to walk’ but just going anywhere we end up walking quite a lot so in that sense as well Japan is very good for your health, I think. Since we arrived in Japan, I’ve been walking 7,000 or 8,000 steps every day, sometimes 10,000m steps and today 12,872 steps. These numbers are probably not that much to those who walk a lot but they are quite large numbers to me as my step count is nearly zero very often (as I don’t take my iPhone everywhere inside the house). This is a good thing for me.
歩いていると、金木犀が香って来ますね。今年は遅かったと聞いていますが、今満開のようです。
When you are walking, you could smell the fragrance of osmanthus. I’m told they flowered late this year but they seem to be in full bloom now.
