iScape Nippon: Night ride through Kyoto's Imperial Palace (Audio)

Every week or so a share of original sounds recorded in Japan this past October. Listen, glisten to the sounds of gardens, crowds, radios, and western worship.

Track 7: At night, on the way home from the Nanzen-ji temple you decide to take a short cut through the Imperial Palace. A lot of Kyoto's temples and gardens remain opened at night for people to cross, wander around, or play badmington under a lamp post (true). The Imperial Palace at the heart of the city has huge gardens enlaced with wide gravel alleys, convenient for biking and for escaping the noisy metropolis. This is a travel back from modern zeal, back from time, back from light.