Yoshiminedera
[Day 6 of our Spring 2019 journey in Japan] “It is quite far away. Why do you want to go there?”, asked the officer at the Kyoto Station Tourist Information Centre. I was slightly taken aback by the implied discouragement. I thought I was doing Kyoto a favour to decongest the city by two persons tomorrow. “Not many people go to Yoshiminedera, mostly old people”, she added. That further deflated my enthusiasm for the planned trip quite a bit. After…