I guess it’s about 8am here, and we have learned to stay in our hotel until just before we check out, or else we will get stuck waiting (with our luggage) until we can check in to our next hotel. So I figured I could come on here and post more pictures, since we were out quite late last night, partying in Kyoto, which rocks.
Enjoy these.
We have some kind of mystic connection with Mister Donut. No joke. Great place. (Corlee took this)
Kyoto station is HUGE and awesome. Look how many stairs! (Corlee)
Plus, they have an underground mall. With a huge grocery store on their second basement floor. (Corlee)
It was high enough as to be dangerous. (Corlee)
But you could pretty much see all of Kyoto from the sky garden.
After that, we went to Higashi-Hongan-ji, a cool temple with way too many pigeons.
A really sweet Japanese woman stuffed a bag of birdseed into Corlee’s pocket and ran. Here they are swarming the birdseed, which Corlee then threw on the ground before they could attack her.
It was a very cool temple. Sorry, we couldn’t take any pictures inside.
It had this cool dragon trough, though.
Then on to Nishi-Hongan-ji.
Since it’s the old capital, these cool lanterns are everywhere.
Finally, we decided to pay admission somewhere and went to Nijo Castle.
They spared no expense to detail in everything there.
It was very cool.
It was also huge. Here’s one of the gardens.
Much more beautiful in real life.
Corlee looking out over the second moat.
The koi were monstrous.
Of course another garden had its own lanterns.
Why are there so many stairs everywhere???
A nice view from the top, in any case.
You could even see the rest of Kyoto in the distance.
Oh, they also had a little rock garden…
… and a huge, western-style garden, just to even things out.
After 400 years, we finally escaped back to our hotel.
Which, of course, has its own lantern.
But it wasn’t over. That night we went back to Kyoto station, and climbed the incredibly dangerous stairs in the rain only to discover that our cameras hate the rain/darkness combination. Plus Corlee broke her brand new umbrella.
Here’s one more dig for you. Yes, these are gas prices.
See you in a week!
