New Miyako Hotel Kyoto

    After relaxing for a couple days at Hakone, we set off for Kyoto, where we stayed at the new Miyako Hotel. Out of the three places we stayed, New Miyako wasn't the nicest. It was, however, conveniently located near the beautiful Kyoto ...

... . This tour took us to Nishi-Honganji Temple instead. There are several pick-up points and we joined the tour from New Miyako Hotel. This hotel is just outside the Hachijo exit of the JR Kyoto station. The cost; 11,600 yen pp including lunch.Our guide was ...

Click on the photo to see pictures of Kyoto, Yokohama, Tokyo, Osaka, Kamakura, and Hakone - Lake Ashi area. Japan Trip October ...

... walking distance of Yodobashi, a huge electronics building, so I browsed around there the next morning as I desperately needed a new camera before Kyoto. Nothing really tickled my fancy, so I refrained and went to meet Andrea at the train station, and we ...

... No biggie - as the Shinkansen departs every ½ hour or so, and we just have to figure out when we can leave. The New Miyako Hotel in Kyoto is not new.  Nor is it anywhere near the quality of the Sheraton Miyako in Tokyo.  MUCH smaller, ...

... Osaka Kansai airport bleery eyed on Friday morning, both of us with major stomach cramps ... made the journey over to Kyoto .. rather well for 2 new Gaijins ... and crashed out for that weird sleep only a 7 hour time difference can produce. Well, woke up ...

Today was a beautiful today.  As it was the last full day in Kyoto, I took my time getting started.  Even though I took my time, I still arrived at the shopping arcade area at least an hour before everything was open. I tried looking for a ...

... extremely unpromising backdrop: the sky was grey and pouring rain so hard that marble-sized circles were appearing and reappearing in the hotel garden’s pond.   I love rainy days.  When I take pictures in the rain, the trees look so green. ...

The third day, the highlight, was a trip to Mount Fuji. After we assembled at New Miyako hotel, we were taken to the Shinkansen station to go to Odawara station. There, we were taken to Hakone and Lake Ashi, a place famed for its view of Mt Fuji and ...

... trains are FAST, it is not exaggerated, everything is whizzing by horrendously fast and it is on-time to the second. Very impressive. Kyoto was a beautiful city, after venturing out for a wonder round our local area on the first afternoon we ended up at a ...