Originally Posted by
abmj-jr
"The main temple?" What, pray tell, is "the main temple" in Kyoto?
Sorry, I was posting on my phone in bed and wasn't able to look it up. I guess "main" is the wrong word, it's just a very large, hard-to-miss one. Specifically the Yasaka Shrine.
Originally Posted by
AlwaysAisle
Also, why checking out the temple before eating?

Why not eating before visiting temples? @:-) We are allowed to have breakfast before heading out for a day trip to Kyoto, aren’t we?

Or is this some kind of weird Kansai ritual I don’t know about?

I think the rest of my post explained quite clearly what I meant by this. You are obviously reading things into what I said that aren't there.