The Togetsukyo Bridge (lit. "Moon Crossing Bridge") is Arashiyama's most iconic landmark. It was originally built during the Heian Period (794-1185) and most recently reconstructed in the 1930s. It's a very popular landmark, and most visited during the Cherry blossom season and during fall with it's vibrant colors of the fall trees covering the mountains.
It was hard to take a good picture of the bridge as there were so many people visiting Arashiyama during the popular Cherry blossom season that we visited in during the first week of April.
Cherry blossom and oranges ripe on the tree growing next to eachother.
The Katsura River, that the Togetsukyo Bridge crosses over with it's rental boats.
We were heading toward the Arashiyama Monkey Park Iwatayama, and it wasn't hard to miss the signs, even if it didn't say the name. It was a long hike up the mountain to get to the park, and it was pretty steep and it was a pretty good workout to get there. Luckily the weather was dry and sunny, walking on the small path up the mountain in rain would have been very hard and almost dangerous especially with kids to slide down the sides of the paths. Before we started to hike up the mountain, we passed by the Ichitani-munakata-jinja Shrine.
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