After a fast train journey from Tokyo on the Shinkansen, we arrived in Kyoto. Our first challenge was to get some money out of an ATM so we could pay for the bus journey to Utano Youth Hostel where we had booked up to stay. We tried several ATM's with no luck and as it was late all the banks were closed. The bus journey was 45 mins, so we were certainly not going to attempt to walk there with our backpacks on, so we simply had to find an ATM that worked. Claire watched over the bags whilst Andy continued the search. Eventually a very kind lady, dressed in a traditional kimono, from a posh hotel within the train station, directed and then escorted him to the Post Office where he had success. We later
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