7:30 pm — Wrapping the day

Spending the day in the hostel and walking around the area. It is as touristy as it gets, which feels really weird. Bamboo forest with nice paths through it — some for walking and some for photoshooting, with a sign prohibiting people from walking there — so that there is a nice empty path on the background of the photo. Small boats touring the tourists on the river and lots, lots of souvenir shops.

Empty path through Arashiyama bamboo forest
Crowd of tourists filling the same bamboo path, a couple pausing in the foreground
Steep forested gorge with tiny tour boats on the river far below
Paved riverside path under overhanging branches, broad calm river to the right