When looking up pictures of Kyoto, I kept stumbling across the same picture – an arresting grove of bamboo.
Having previously visited Kyoto, I felt this couldn’t be accurate. After all, if Kyoto had had something this beautiful, shouldn’t we have heard of it and visited last time?
No, apparently. The bamboo grove was just one of the many spectacular sites of Arashiyama – a beautiful area located on the western outskirts of Kyoto.
The Selfish Years 