Kyoto Capsule Hotels - Reviews and Rates

On Friday we caught the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto, 540 kms away and only took a little over two hours. Kyoto is a much smaller city than Tokyo, 1.3 million as opposed to 34 million! Found the hotel very easily. The rail and subway system is really easy to navigate, although the stations are huge they are well signposted in English. Kyoto ...

We're up early and packing to leave for Kyoto. We'll be riding the Shinkansen or what some refer to as the Bullet Train. We packed up, checked out of the Century Hyatt and hauled ourselves to the train station to check in for the Hikari Shinkansen to Kyoto. Located in the mountains of Western Honshu, Kyoto has earned a worldwide reputation as Ja...

An early start today to catch the train. I guess we should have realised something was up with the train network when the station manager started to get shirty with one of our party for being on the station platform too early (???)- normally staff are the epitome of polite customer service. The train we eventually caught set off on time, but wa...

Today I was sick. I will never drink shochu again. Mike was okay, but I threw up twice and couldn't eat or drink anything. Hence we couldn't leave at 7am for Kyoto as we had planned. We ended up leaving at 9:15. On the train to Osaka station I just wanted to pass out. We exchanged our rail passes which was a 5min painless exercise (Mike's dad co...