Kyoto Royal Hotel And Spa

... was to find a coin laundry. There are so few of them in Japan now, most of the them are located in hostels. Unfortunately the Kyoto Royal Garden didn't have one and I didn't want to use their laundry service and be forced to pay Y500 for a shirt! Michi ...

... and from there we boarded a train to Kyoto.  Kazu's son, Koske, made us reservations at the Rhga Royal Hotel (one of the finest in Kyoto--).  We checked in; freshened up and took a taxi to downtown.  Found a Japanese restaurant that wasn't ...

We boarded the Shinkansen at 8.15am bound for Kyoto and arrived about 10.30am, caught a taxi to the Kyoto Royal Hotel.  Because check in was 2pm we left our luggage and journeyed off to the Gion district which was a 15 minute walk from the Hotel, we ...

... the hostel! 1-11 Kyoto is the old capital of Japan until 1868, and is still the cultural capital in a sense. People in Kyoto embody the qualities and practically define what it means to be Japanese. There are so many temples in the city that you would ...

... and in Japan. Some of the things being sold are pearls, damascenes, woodblock prints, Painted screens, Antiques, Kimonos, Kyoto dolls(Japanese dolls), Samurai swords, Kokeshi dolls, cloisonne, lacquered boxes, kimono, and yukata. There were demonstrations ...