Kyoto: Ten Thousand Torii, a Few Foxes, and One Very Useful Discovery

Saturday, November 14, 2026 Our last full day in Kyoto began at Fushimi Inari Taisha, the Shinto shrine famous for its seemingly endless tunnels of vermilion torii gates. And by “endless,” I mean approximately 10,000. I believe I photographed a substantial percentage of them. The shrine was founded in 711, long before Kyoto became Japan’s […]