Kyoto,day 1 after the manga museum we went to the temple of 1000 buddahs, San jusangen. It wad hot and I was not that impressed. So we got a very expensive taxi up a hill to what the guidebook promised 'we will not ruin the experience for you, but yourre entering a metaphorical womb' temple. So rather excitedly we assumed we'd be entering a temple through a vagina... But the temple was closed- wrong time of the month! So. We went to kiyomizu temple which perches on top of a hill and has lots of tinkly bells and gorgeous scenery.
Day 2 Kyoto: we went to look at some pretty streets called Sannen ninen visited a temple called ginkaju silver pagoda thing, fed a terrapin udon noodles, sat in a park and caught a train to a night festival... It was so busy that we had to cross a river on stepping stone turtles to get the hell out of there... Diamonji festival where the ghosts of boon return to where they came from, a busy affair, we lasted 5 minutes in the crowds!!
Day 3 Kyoto- saw gold palace in morning Kinkaju and the bamboo forest and train boat ride in afternoon ( more to come later) and I saw a geisha
Left Kyoto to go to Osaka for the day- Osaka aquarium and ferris wheel then got drunk in Nara tequila Jenga yikes and karaoke.
Spent the day in Nara with deer and a hangove
Now on train to Hiroshima to see race memorial and the peace park
Tomorrow, Mazda museum and then.... To the beach , shirishijma for 4 days.... Back to Tokyo fir 24 hours and home ... Boo
Nara following day for
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