Monday, May 06, 2013

Relaxing in Kyoto

Next we took the 'Thunderbird' train to Kyoto. We had organised 5 nights here in an apartment on a hill in Gion. And we planned on taking a very leisurely pace around the town, which was as well as half of Japan seemed to be in Kyoto for the weekend and streets and temples and transport was all ridiculously packed, even the simplest noodle places had lines to get in for lunch.

We saw a few temples, cycled the Philosophers path


and maybe even a few Geisha (or just women dressed up as them). We also stumbled upon a wedding at a shrine with a fairly frightened looking bride.

We also had a few culinary adventures in our neighbourhood, including an excellent all you can eat shabu shabu and a cute Okonomiaki (pancake noodle thing) bar with 3 tables. We've also been eating a lot of convenience store ice cream as it's the first time the temperature has been over 20 degrees. Hope it stays that way.

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