Ana Hotel Kyoto

... passes for the day, and headed out into the city. I need to take a moment to describe the doorman at the Ana Hotel Kyoto. The friendly Japanese man had spent 5 years prior in Southern California, and therefore took it upon himself to greet us at every ...

... shrine.  The shrine is relatively new, being built in 1895 to commemorate the 1100th anniversary of the founding of Kyoto.  Again, a spectacular shrine complex (apologies for repetition but it is difficult not to run out of superlatives here!). ...

... at the same time.  I'm sure the Geisha just thought it was annoying.  Regardless, we got the picture.  Kyoto was a very interesting place, modern yet at the same time, very culturally rooted as it was not uncommon to see women in kimonos ...

... smug as the poor saps filed on to the back of the plane. We were a little concerned about catching the bullet train to Kyoto out of Tokyo because we'd heard that the train station is very busy with multilevels of tracks and over 3000 trains per day going ...

... . It was a lot of fun. We got paired up with a couple of awesome Japanese students and they shepparded us around a couple of places in Kyoto. We got to ride, and change, trains, about three of them before we got to the stop we needed. We went to the Heian- ...