Honestly, the bamboo "forest" isn't worth a visit. I wonder if they post this news just to attract more tourists. The same story has been posted year after year.
It's just a place where someone once planted a lot of bamboo thinking they'd need it as a ressource. They didn't need it so they just left it there.
It dates back about a thousand years, so I guess it's "natural" now, but it's basically the remains of a human made plantation, albeit old.
The famous path through it is about a hundred meters long and a great spot to take that photo. I didn't feel immersed in the forest at all, because the entry and exit is visible through the entire "attraction".
There's a nice temple with an impressive garden close by and some random rich rock star dude also build a mansion with a garden on top of the mountain next to the forest, and that's it.
The whole thing felt like the kind of place that you only want to go if you're a tourist with nothing better to do.
Kyoto is still worth visiting as a whole. The thousand gates on mt. Inari is a much better use of your time.

Jeg kan sagtens se formålet med at kirken giver lokalsamfundet mulighed for at mødes i lokaler som giver anledning til rolig eftertanke, og samhørighed. Jeg ville ønske at der var et mere moderne alternativ.
Der hvor filmen knækker for mig er at ordføreren skal være en præst som forkynder Guds budskab. Hvis Gud vil mig noget, så kan han sende mig en e-mail. Jeg behøver ikke præstens fortolkning af hvad han/hun tror at have forstået.
Det pisser mig også af at kirken som den eneste grundejer i landet har lov til at lave veto mod udsigten til vindmøller på andre folks grunde.
Jeg synes desuden at ritualerne med at hælde vand i hovedet af spædbørn og servere slatne kiks og doven portvin til mindreårige konfirmander er meget ude af trit med nutiden.
Derfor har jeg meldt mig ud af kirken.