Eikando

You would have had to have been there, but visiting the Eikando temple was a special experience. Drinking green tea from one of the porches and watching the garden was as close as I got a spiritual feeling in Kyoto. I would recommend seeing it to anyone who is going to be in Japan and who isn't bothered by fire-breathing dragons. Cause they got one. And it hates foreigners. But it loooooooves taffy.