While walking, we came across the Yasaka Koshin-do temple. Here, you take a kukurizaru (a monkey with it's hands and feet tied up forming a little ball) and you hang it on the shrine. On the monkey you write a desire you have that you would like to eliminate from your life. After it is hung, you are free of the desire and granted a wish. There is no translation for it, so in English, everyone calls them "desire monkeys," which I found funny.
The Koryuji temple at dusk. It is the oldest temple in Kyoto.
A close up of the Kukurizaru
I saw a Geisha walking around so I had to take her picture. I saw a few while in Kyoto, but rarely did I see them just strolling down the road.
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