Today is our last day in Kyoto. We had the morning off to do whatever we wanted so a group of about six of us went to visit a monkey park. We really did not know what to expect but we took the train about 20 minutes out side of Kyoto and asked some locals where the monkey park was. They kind of laughed when we asked them about it so we were not sure if we were going to a place where there wouldn’t be any monkeys. We had to walk up a fairly large hill and as we got about half way I saw a monkey run across the field in front of us. We kept walking up and got to the top where there was a house. We were told not to make eye contact or touch the monkeys or they could become aggressive. At the house there were probably 30 monkeys. The house was surrounded with fencing so the monkeys could grab on to the fence and we could put our hand out and they would grab the food from our hand. There were some baby monkeys that were really tiny. We fed them apples and peanuts and when we started feeding them more and more came out of the forest. There were probably about 60 of them around the house and there are about 150 of them in the entire area. We went out of the house to try to get some pictures but we had to be careful not to stare at the monkeys or approach them too close. Two of the people in our group were caught in a monkey fight with monkeys yelling and chasing each other. It was so much fun to see the monkeys and feed them.
We took the Senkansan back to Tokyo and arrived at the Sakura Hotel. I was glad to be back in Tokyo because I missed hanging out with the Meiji students and there is more to do in Tokyo than Kyoto. I loved Kyoto; it was a very nice city and had many great historical aspects.
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