We walked out along the creek to the big orange tori gate. There were lots of little old houses and gardens along the way.

We stopped for an icecream before going to look at the art gallery. The building was over a hundred years old. It was shady and quiet outside. There was a big Magritte show on but we didn’t go to see it. We looked at the postcards in the shop.

We walked into town. We saw some interesting old bamboo and basket and brush shops. We found a playground outside an old school and a knife shop we had been looking for. We had a late lunch.

John and Varsha and Laxmi went back to the apartment while I went to the Kyoto Museum.