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 We started out early, after a yummy breakfast to the museums and shrines of Kyoto.     We found the old area which opened up fun antique stores and architecture.   Shrine of the 1000 buddahs. Official Description: Sanjusangendo Hall, which dates from 1266. It's only about 50 feet wide, but it stretches almost 400 feet, making it the longest wooden building in Japan. However, it's not the building itself that impresses but what it contains--1,001 life-size images of the thousand-handed Kannon. Seeing so many of them--row upon row of gold figures, glowing in the dark hall--is stunning. In the middle is an 11-foot-tall seated figure of Kannon carved in 1254. At the back of the hall is a 130-yard-long archery range where a competition is held every January 15.    
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