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I lost 4 of them. Kokedera, Shugakuin rikyu, Daigoji and Shimogamo shrine.

It was really difficult.

Have you ever heard of Kyoto kentei.

It's a public license about Kyoto. Your friend may pass that licnese, if he or she read Japanese.

http://www.kyotokentei.ne.jp/

Well, as someone who lived in Kyoto for more than a decade, I would say five out of those twenty sites. They are beautiful indeed, but if you are a resident of kyoto, you aren't particularly interested in visiting those touristy(if not historically significant) places in Kyoto. And they they aren't particularly integrated in one place. They are scattered all over the city. The Kyoto city itself is a huge city in which traffic congestions are prevalent. When our family visit my grandparents house we had to go to this interchange leading to the meishin expressway which bisects the southern part of the city. If you leave at a bad time it took more than an hour just to get on to the expressway that's only 10km away from our house. Take, for example, Arashiyama. That's located around at the northern border of the city right? It takes a couple hours from where we lived in the Uji city although that's not really far away. But the place seemed almost as if it's a foreign place, because of the time that must be spent in driving. So many people in Kyoto can't just come and go to all of those places in there. I guess most of them have visited Golden Temple and Arashiyama though.

In Japanese elementary school they have a school trip, and it's kind of a major event. 99% of the school trips is to go to Kyoto and Nara, and guess what, we go to this pathetic little place called Mie prefecture where they eat nothing but robsters.