We decided that since it was still mid-afternoon, and Kyoto was just a short train-ride away from where we were in Nara, we would try to see the Fushimi-inari gates before going back to our hotel in Hikane. We took the train at 2:30 and an hour later we stepped out of the train station in Inari. And just out the door there was the walkway with a big orange torii gate, signaling the entrance to the shrine!