☆ 京都・平安神宮神苑 Heian Jingu Shrine sacred garden in Kyoto

11月18日（日）　素晴らしい紅葉を見ようと京都にでかけた。

明治時代の代表的な日本庭園として広く内外に知られている平安神宮神苑は、ご社殿を取り囲むように東・中・西・南の四つの庭からなっている。

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I went out to see the beautiful autumn leaves in Kyoto on November 18.

The Heian Jingu Shrine sacred garden known in and abroad widely as a typical Japanese garden of Meiji Era, which consists of four yards of the east, inside, the west, and south so that shrine pavilions may be surrounded. 

                                      中神苑      Heian Jingu Shrine sacred garden Inside

                                      中神苑      Heian Jingu Shrine sacred garden Inside

                                    東神苑      Heian Jingu Shrine sacred garden East

                                        東神苑      Heian Jingu Shrine sacred garden East

                                        東神苑      Heian Jingu Shrine sacred garden East

  

                                    東神苑      Heian Jingu Shrine sacred garden East

                                   東神苑      Heian Jingu Shrine sacred garden East

琵琶湖疏水　　Lake Biwa Canal

今から約100年以上も前に造られた琵琶湖疏水は、水運、電力、用水の供給など、京都市が近代産業都市として変革していくために欠かせないものを、一挙に実現し今日の産業発展の基礎となった。琵琶湖は、滋賀県にある湖。日本で最大の面積と貯水量を持つ.

ここは、若いカップルの憩いの場になっている。

Supply of water transport, electric power, and city water, etc. realized the thing indispensable in order for Kyoto to reform as a modern-industries city at once, and Lake Biwa Canal was built about 100 years ago or more from now on ,and became the foundation of today's industrial prosperity.

Lake Biwa is located in Shiga Prefecture and it has the largest lake with a biggest storage capacity in Japan.

Nowadays, here becomes the healing place of young couples.

                                              琵琶湖疏水　　Lake Biwa Canal