Routely Presents: Kyoto

The most-saved spot in Kyoto, and the wooden stage jutting out over the hillside is exactly why. Twenty-three separate travelers found their way here on their own, which for a temple perched above a steep slope on the east side of the city is a real number.

Thousands of orange torii gates climbing the mountain, and tied for second most-saved spot in the city. Most people photograph the first few hundred meters and call it a day, which is honestly a completely reasonable amount of gate.

A grove of bamboo so tall it blocks out most of the sky, saved by exactly as many travelers as Fushimi Inari. It's a five-minute walk end to end, and somehow that's still enough for twenty-one different people to plan around it.

A temple covered in actual gold leaf, sitting over a reflecting pond. It photographs so well that it's easy to assume it's overrated. Twenty separate travelers disagreed enough to save it themselves.

Kyoto's old geisha district, all narrow lanes and wooden teahouse facades. No single door to walk through, just a neighborhood people save whole and then wander for an evening.

A sloped, stone-paved street lined with old shopfronts, usually saved as the walk between Kiyomizu-dera and the rest of the Higashiyama district. Fifteen travelers saved it as its own stop rather than just a route through.

Known locally as Kyoto's kitchen, a narrow covered street of food stalls that's been there in some form for centuries. The most-saved food spot in the city, which tracks: it's the one place where you can actually eat your way down a single street.

A single narrow alley of restaurants running along the Kamo River, barely wide enough for two people to pass. Seven travelers saved it independently, which for an alley you could walk past without noticing is a real vote of confidence.