Weather: beautiful 14°C, high 29°C Accommodation: Sakara Kyoto. Our last day. We woke up to doing our last showers, packing, and tidying our accommodation. After our (planned) shopping spree in Kyoto we needed to pack all 3 of our bags…
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Japan 2015 Day 35: a zen rock garden – and shopping
Weather: beautiful 14°C, high 28°C Accommodation: Sakara Kyoto. We started the day at our local french cafe. Eskil discovered the joys of pain au chocolate! We took our dear bus 12 to the far end then walked the rest of…
Japan 2015 Day 35: cable car to Mt Hiei and bus to Ginkaku-ji
Weather: beautiful 14°C, high 28°C Accommodation: Sakara Kyoto. We had to pack our things up as while we were out today our bags would be moved from the Sakura to the Bamboo Suite in our accommodation. After accomplishing this we…
Japan 2015 Day 34: exploring Higashiyama
Weather: beautiful 14°C, high 26°C Accommodation: Sakara Kyoto. After making breakfast at home, we took the bus a short distance to so that we were closer to Kiyomizu-dera. Saving our feet was important as we were going to be walking…
Japan 2015 Day 33: Golden Pavilion, Inari Shrine, and walking around
Weather: beautiful 14°C, high 26°C Accommodation: Sakara Kyoto. After a lovely late start to the day, we had a little walk around our neighbourhood to an ATM (7-11). Then we caught bus 12, which would take us to the Kinkakuji…
Japan 2015 Day 32: Arashiyama – river cruise, MONKEYS, and bamboo grove
Weather: beautiful 14°C, high 25°C Accommodation: Sakara Kyoto. After making breakfast in our flat, we took the train to Arashiyama, just outside Kyoto. It was a day packed full of awesome. First we took the Sagano Scenic Railway, which runs…
Japan 2015 Day 31: getting oriented in Kyoto
Weather: partly cloudy 14°C, high 25°C Accommodation: Sakara Kyoto. As it was our first full day in Kyoto, we decided to have a fairly relaxed day of wandering. We were able to start the day was breakfast cooked at ‘home’,…
Japan 2015 Day 31: travel from Nara to Kyoto
Weather: 17°C, high 25°C Accommodation: woke up at Guesthouse Nara Komachi; went to sleep at Sakara Kyoto. Trains: Nara 13:53 –> Rokujizou (JR Station) 14:30 (JR Nara Line) Rokujizou (Subway) 14:35 –> Higashiyama 14:57 (Kyoto City Subway Tozai Line) Today…
Japan 2015 Day 30: Nara
Weather: slightly cloudy with a shower or two 15°C, high 23°C Accommodation: Guesthouse Nara Komachi. Eskil watched a Curious George; it was even one we haven’t seen at home. Too bad it was in Japanese. Afterwards we headed out to…
Japan 2015 Day 29: travel from Kurashiki to Nara
Weather: slightly cloudy – but sunny when we arrived in Kurashiki 12°C, high 23°C Accommodation: woke up Kakure Yado Yuji-Inn; went to sleep at Guesthouse Nara Komachi. Trains: Kurashiki 9:59 –> Okayama 10:16 (JR Sanyo Line) Okayama 11:23 –> Kyoto 12:55…