After our marathon raw fish dinner last night we slept well, but got up at 6am for a dip in the hot pool (‘Onsen’) before breakfast. I think that hotel is likely to be the fanciest of the trip and the room was just amazing with its sliding paper dividers and clever buttons and switches (and it had the most advanced toilet ever with various different sprays, squirts and even a warm air dying function!).
We checked out from the hotel, were given our shoes back and a taxi man drove us the half an hour to a train station to get the bullet train to Kyoto. Top comedy moment was where our taxi driver, who could speak very little english was trying to explain something to us on the platform, but he had a mask on so we couldn’t really work out what he was saying, then just when we were starting to understand a long bullet train zoomed past totally drowning out any chance we had of communication.
The train journey was perfect and all very efficient. We may have seen Mt Fuji out of the train window.
A lady met us off the train at Kyoto station and helped us get a taxi and check in to the hotel. Another hotel which was probably built in the 70s, but with a central hole around the room corridors we haven’t quite worked out. It’s sort of like i image a cruise ship would have.
We got an early checkin so once we’ve put the bags in the room (including our suitcases which had found their own way from Tokyo) we went to explore Kyoto. Our destination was a burger place with good review (i needed to reset my pallette after yesterday’s culinary shock) and along the way we found some nice shopping alley. We walked back down an even smaller alley of restaurants where sometime Geishas can be seen (we didn’t see any).
Back at the hotel we had a snooze … for three hours. So decided we’d not go out this evening and have been doing some admin instead.
