Gimmond Hotel Kyoto

... now when checking into a Japanese hotel). So we went over to M's Cafe across the road from the hotel (which is on the main drag of Kyoto). Got some weird but good coffees, and free internet, and what was actually our first chance of the ...

... The nett result is that Charlotte now has a massive scratch down the bridge of her nose and under her eye, and the Gimmond hotel have one completely shattered powerpoint. It still works, but the plastic surrounnding the powerpoint is in about 50 ...

... , which was our favourite restaurant from our original Japan trip in 2008. The original restaurant was a little further North, near the Gimmond hotel, but we decided to try this one since it was close. I'm guessing they are a franchise, because aside from ...

... today. We took our time getting ready to leave the hotel in the morning, and headed out at about 10am. I think Kyoto is my favorite Japanese city. The pace of the city is slower, the people are friendlier and the city seems ...

... and travel stories, they left to find their hotel, and we went down to catch the subway to the central area of Kyoto where our hotel is located. Having stayed at this hotel at the start of the trip,we had no problems finding the hotel and ...

... . It was excellent. 4 meals for $18 with as much rice and water as you want is pretty reasonable. We returned to the hotel after a short walk. We stayed in for the afternoon and watched simpsons episodes on the eeepc. Later on that night we were hungry ...

... semana del viaje se acerca y regresamos a lugares conocidos con idea de completar las visitas que quedaron pendientes.  Primera parada Kyoto, y en especial la zona sur de Higashiyama.  El objetivo era Kiyomizu-dera, pero al ser domingo y haberse ...

... all day bus passes, and we were in that part of town already, we decided to head back to the vending machine restaurant near the Gimmond Hotel that we'd eaten at so many times in the last Japan trip. A very long walk was required because the buses do not ...

... blog at 4pm on the 23rd, and I've had 15 minutes sleep since 7am yesterday. After we check out of the Gimmond Hotel, we are officially homeless, until we arrive back in Australia. We packed all of the bags in the configuration which ...

Día muy aprovechado el de hoy, y que nos ha dejado bastante extenuados, con lo que la publicación de las fotos se ha resentido un poco. Nos ponemos en pie pronto para intentar evitar en lo posible las multitudes y el sol del mediodía en nuestra ...

... , but space available friday and saturday. I made a reservation and started walking back to the Cheapest. Then I came upon Hotel Gimmond--a real hotel and not a dormitory. The had a room available for two nights at a reasonable rate, just 5500¥ a ...

... home, and having to change it over (only to take another battering at the hands of the pitiful Australian $ exchange rate. At Kyoto station, we had to decide whether we would catch a subway or a bus to the shopping distict. For a little ...

Checked out of the Gimmond Hotel, and caught the subway to Kyoto train station, and got on the 7:50am super-express Shinkansen bound for Hiroshima, which headed through Osaka, Kobe (famous for the beef), Himeji (which we will be coming back to in a week ...