Words cannot describe how beautiful the Golden Pavilion is. It is astounding. A little history of the building: the pavilion itself consists of three types of architectures - The first floor is Shinden-zukuri, the palace style. The second floor is Buke-zukuri, the style of the samurai house. The third floor is Karayo style, or Zen temple style.
I think this was our second favorite place we visited on our trip (our favorite is still coming up!):
The water from Kyoko-chi (Mirror pond) seemed like it was dancing off of the golden lacquer and thick golden gilding:
We have a friend with REALLY bad luck - we bought him one of these so maybe his luck will turn around :)
Absolutely amazing...
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