Describe a city you have visited

I'll talk about Kyoto, in Japan, which I visited about four years ago for just under a week, in early April, timed — mostly by luck rather than planning — right at the tail end of cherry blossom season. I spent most days just walking, honestly, which is probably the best way to see it: through the older neighbourhoods with their wooden machiya houses, along the Philosopher's Path with petals collecting on the water, and up into the hills to a couple of the quieter temples that don't make it onto most tourist lists. I also spent one whole day doing something fairly touristy, the bamboo grove and the main shrines, and while it was beautiful it was also absurdly crowded, which taught me that the ordinary streets in between the famous sites were actually where I enjoyed myself more. What impressed me most, though, wasn't any single building — it was how deliberate everything felt, the way a tiny restaurant with maybe six seats would still care intensely about the exact temperature of the tea, or how a garden would be raked in a pattern clearly redone that same morning. Coming from a much noisier, faster city, that level of quiet attention to small things stuck with me more than any famous landmark did, and it's honestly changed how I think about my own daily routines since I got back.