Kyoto Cityscape

(Note: the previous entry has been updated to include a disclaimer about the snopes page I linked.  After reading it more closely, I decided it needed to be addressed directly.)

When M. told people he was moving to Kyoto, a lot of Americans expressed dismay.  “Japan must be so unpleasant,” they worried.  “You know, it’s wall-to-wall people, there.”  Okay, so…  I know what they’re thinking of.  They’re picturing something like the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, home to some of the busiest intersections in the world.

Well, Kyoto isn’t Tokyo, for one thing. And where M. is living and working hardly even counts as Kyoto. This is his office building:

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And here are some views from campus.

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The university is up on the hill; down in the valley, you can see the residential area, and then forested mountains beyond. Basically, this area is less hyper-modern city and more traditional Japanese nature landscape.

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