Geo: 42.387, 141.01816 - 25 July 2016 From Tokyo to Kyoto, Himeji, Naoshima in the Inland Sea and Hokkaido.Gilli departed early on the 16th and we left Anna & James in Tokyo to enjoy their last couple of days alone and then set off back to Kyoto. The reason for this is that Kyoto has an annual festival, the Gion Matsuri Festival which lasts the whole of July in Gion but with the highlight, a procession, on the 17th.We doubted whether we could get there in time as initially we were only able to book accommodation in Gion on Airbnb for 4 nights from the 17th but the procession starts at 9am and we would not be able to travel from Tokyo to Kyoto early enough. All the accommodation, understandably, was fully booked for the 16th
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