{"id":25,"date":"2026-06-15T18:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/2026\/06\/15\/kyoto-backstreets-temples-tea-and-quiet-lanes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:21:00","slug":"kyoto-backstreets-temples-tea-and-quiet-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/2026\/06\/15\/kyoto-backstreets-temples-tea-and-quiet-lanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto Backstreets: Temples, Tea, and Quiet Lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most visitors to Kyoto stay close to the famous sites \u2014 Fushimi Inari, Arashiyama, Gion \u2014 and they are worth seeing. But the Kyoto that stays with you is found in the streets between those landmarks. The narrow lanes of Nishiki, the moss-covered stone steps of forgotten shrines, the old wooden machiya houses with sliding doors and the smell of cedar and green tea drifting through the slats.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Slow down and the city opens up<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rent a bicycle and spend a morning with no destination \u2014 just the backstreets of Higashiyama or the canal paths of Fushimi. Stop at a tiny tea house when your feet need rest. Order a simple matcha and watch the morning pass. Kyoto rewards patience. The quieter you move through it, the more it shows you.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most visitors to Kyoto stay close to the famous sites \u2014 Fushimi Inari, Arashiyama, Gion \u2014 and they are worth seeing. But the Kyoto that stays with you is found in the streets between those landmarks. The narrow lanes of Nishiki, the moss-covered stone steps of forgotten shrines, the old wooden machiya houses with sliding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddevanshu.vccdigitalmedia.ca\/my-first-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}