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Hello japan!
Nice to meet you, I'll be staying in you for the next two weeks. So we arrived and quickly made our way through customs and immigration which was very easy though I'm not looking forward to coming back in, apparently australia is very strict. Which is a shame because that means I won't be able to bring back any ninja weapons. We caught the train from the island airport we landed on into Kyoto and walked ...
The last word
I just can't end this without a few words about toilets around the world. I can imagine a few of you would just as soon skip this – that’s fine – but I just can’t neglect some of the most interesting experiences of my trip.
Turkey - all is fairly normal and not too difficult to sort out. Never a regular flush toilet like we have at home – but a foot pedal or a button on the wall, or a string to pull from the ceiling is OK ...
Temples and Geishas
... use chopsticks and much of the afternoon is spent exploring the city's indoor shopping arcades, which contain many unusual foods for sale, as well as a flourishing fish market.
Then in the evening, we're off on the buses again to explore Gion, which is a sort of theatres-and-red-light district, not far from the city centre. It's getting near dusk, which is apparently the best time to go geisha-spotting. We're not the only people doing this - there are large numbers ...
Escaping the heat: Kyoto edition
... this morning was to wander through Gion and Higashiyama and make my way to Kyoto station, where I'd get my JR pass and hit up the tourist information center for some maps and tips to get to Kurama and Kibune today; all by 9 AM. Well, I got the JR pass and made it to the office, who told me nothing I couldn't get online, and onto the train at 11AM. Usually, a couple of hours means little in the scheme of things, but at 9AM, it was humid in Kyoto, but not ...
Day 39 - Its all about the view...
... and realised this was out in the middle of nowhere, and we weren't sure when the next train would be, so we quickly headed back into the train. Next stop we got off, and waited for a train. We got to see some pretty views, but this took us an extra hour to get us to our destination.
Once we finally arrived we went to the Tenryu-Ji temple. The highlight at this temple ...