Japan, day 7

That concrete block to the end of the temple?  That's our hotel ... and our rooms look over the complex.  I say "our" - Clare and Kitty turned up on the train from Tokyo (and before that, LHR); I came from Takamatsu, which involved a long ride over a terrific suspension bridge.  Much of the day, otherwise, was spent catching up with practical stuff, and I managed to have an hour (whilst the others were sleeping) in the Hiagashi Hinkan-ji Temple - huge and magnificent, even if built (after its fourth fire) only in the late 1890s.

And then we were taken out (for this is, from this point out, something of a work trip) to dinner in the Gion quarter, and sat in a booth, and ate a good deal of fish and drank a good deal of sake.