Kyoto: The Japanese Neverland

Not lengthy in the past I wandered wide-eyed by means of the glory that is Kyoto. The ultra-modern Kyoto station provides way to an incomprehensible density of temples and shrines. It tends to make it truly feel like the steel and concrete city fell away, as if it never ever sprouted in the initial area. Kyoto, I learned, is not a city or a location, it’s additional a phenomenon.

It’s one particular of those exclusive destinations you knew you’d want to bear in mind once daily life in the cubicle sets in. I couldn’t pretty put my thoughts into satisfactory words myself, until finally Tom Swick’s poetic words about his time there seemed to mirror the effortless Kyoto I bear in mind.

“Everything — the scenery, the climate, the crowds — was touched with an otherworldly delicacy. I appeared not so substantially to stroll but to float.” Later on, a regional handed him a business card right after asking for instructions her Western identify on the front, “Becky.” Then he flipped the card over. “In Neverland.”

I couldn’t agree additional.