Have breakfast, including a banana labelled as a “new age” banana, then head out to one of the more famous temples. Arrive along with hundreds of other tourists and wonder round the wooden shrines, with balconies overhanging the hillside held together only by wood slotting together and not using nails. Watch people praying, and many catching and drinking “pure” water using giant ladles, plus got some good pics of mad Japanese outfits!
Headed back via Gion – the tradition home of the Geisha and the Maiko, and look for a recommended café for lunch. End up with a Caesar salad wrap in starbucks instead, just as Ieuan is on the verge of getting grumpy! Walk back into town for some shopping at Tower records and other various shops, (see pic of Lou's favourite find) then stop off at Red Rubber Ball café for a cup of tea. Back to the hotel where we change into warmer clothes and head to JR station to book tickets back to Tokyo for earlier than we currently have planned on Sunday. At the station, which is a pretty impressive building, we get the escalators about 12 stories up to the sky garden, for great views of the city. We also watch a local school band performing in the concert hall within the station.
Headed back via Gion – the tradition home of the Geisha and the Maiko, and look for a recommended café for lunch. End up with a Caesar salad wrap in starbucks instead, just as Ieuan is on the verge of getting grumpy! Walk back into town for some shopping at Tower records and other various shops, (see pic of Lou's favourite find) then stop off at Red Rubber Ball café for a cup of tea. Back to the hotel where we change into warmer clothes and head to JR station to book tickets back to Tokyo for earlier than we currently have planned on Sunday. At the station, which is a pretty impressive building, we get the escalators about 12 stories up to the sky garden, for great views of the city. We also watch a local school band performing in the concert hall within the station.
Walk back to town via Joe’s Garage records, and hunt for an Indonesian Café for tea. Eventually find it, but the 10 or so seats are filled with a university party. The mad owner kindly squeezes us in on the end of a wooden bench for a drink, and on delivering the drink, instructs the young Japanese lads opposite us to talk to us, which they duly do! We end up chatting to them and another girl for most of the evening, and Lou is also given a book in English about Kyoto to read! We swap email addresses with 1 of the students, and he kindly orders us some delicious Mexican Gouya, which are meat inside a kind of pastry shell. We later manage to order some coconut chicken and rice which was very nice. We say goodnight and head home, stopping to buy next days breakfast.
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