Today we’re going to introduce the best spot to experience the refreshing fresh green in Kyoto. It’s called ‘Honen-in’ where I visited a weeks ago. This place is named after a legendary priest Honen. (‘garan’, the main cathedral, is specially opened to the public twice a year; Apr. 1-7, Nov. 1-7)     This temple is located near Path of Philosophy, and has quiet, noble atmosphere with only few pedestrians around, except for high season. You’ll find out that so many writers, artists and scholars had fallen in love with this place, on walking through the graves of well-known Japanese writers such as Junichi Tanizaki and Hajime Kawakami in the temple.     You can feel the summer-breeze-running forest in the day time. The tender sound of leaves makes you want to stay there forever.     A big root of a tree is running across the path. Now let’s hop over it not to ruin it, like the news of thousands-year-old ...more