Hotel Kaito Takashima
1-6 Nakoji Imazucho Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, Kinki, 520-1631, Japan
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Second day in Kyoto
... the pond i met one guy from belgium and his japanese friend who lives in paris. he gave me some good information about osaka and encouraged to go to the slum districts there because in japan maybe finding homeless and unemployed people is as hard as finding a geisha walking in the street. he said some japanese say those parts of the cities are dangerous but thats probably not called danegreous in other parts of the world!
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Kyoto
... game shops, computer shops, anime, components stalls down alleys. There was also lots of noise from girls in small skirts handing things out, men shouting to attract you in, music blaring.
13:16 Seen enough and not wanted anything. Can't afford what I do want. So back to hostel and off to Kyoto I think. There's not much more I can do here I think.
14:57 We have arrived at Tokyo station, it's buzzing and carrying all my bags I'm trying to misbalance. We find our ...
Reaching Zen: Temples of Kyoto
... the shogun who purchased the pavilion. The roof was the last thing to be restored in 2003 and represents the final project we are able to see today. Overall, the pavilion is three floors with a bronze phoenix ornament sitting atop gazing over the throngs of tourists. The temple is truly majestic. Although it isn't that big, the gold plating is very unique and we were fortunate enough to be there on a nice day. The pond that sits in front of the ...
Kyoto part 2
... a large Japanese style living room. An elderly lady dressed up in a Kimono showed me round my room, then sat me down to serve me some green tea. She then joined me at my table and we had about a ten minute conversation with not a single word of Japanese spoken on my side and not a single work of English spoken on her side. It was interesting.
I then put on my own Kimono to head down to ...
12.09pm - Gimme More
... But although Fuji is supposed to be beautiful, we weren’t planning on climbing it or anything, just going for a wander around the area, so it wasn’t the biggest hardship.
Instead, we spent a lazy morning hanging out and chatting, before heading to the cute little restaurant next door for an amazing lunch of spicy fried rice with salmon, steamed Chinese-style dumplings, fried gyoza (Japanese dumplings) and the most amazing mixed greens, ...


