friendly reminders
“Please keep your face away from the wire net” just seems like good life advice.
I walked down the other side of the mountain, through the thick trees and light pink blooms. On the way I came across a park with what must be the world's most dangerous slippery slide: an alarmingly steep rusty metal thing painted verdigris and featuring, half way, an abrupt plateau that could only have been intentionally designed to cause spinal injuries.
a place to be
And what a view. If you look closely in the lower centre you can see Arashiyama Station 嵐山駅 enveloped in cherry blossoms, while in the distance on the right Kyoto Tower 京都タワー pokes up.
sway
And up here on storm mountain, you, too, can take some time to sit, reflect and let the quiet wash over you.
mostly human
There were lots of people inside, either chilling out or eagerly feeding the monkeys through the grated windows, mirroring the divide in behaviour of the monkeys outside.
This seemed liked a fairer way to offer an interaction with wild animals: with the humans being the ones inside the cage.
tracing
It's enough fun to just stand a while and watch them going about their business, but you can head inside the hut to grab some peanuts and there'll instantly be no shortage of takers.
outside inside
Monkeys all over, either feverishly grabbing peanuts from the humans inside, or just chilling out.