Kyoto

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Having had no trouble finding accommodation anywhere in six months, Kyoto finally caught us out and we spent our first day bouncing around tourist offices trying to find accomodation having drawn a blank on the internet. After a very long time we finally ended up in a western style hotel for one night and a Japanese 'Ryokan' for two more. The Ryokan was the full paper walls, roll your bedding out on the floor and try to squeeze your feet into tiny slippers experience and quite entertaining if a bit pricey. Apart from that we saw yet more temples, braved a mechanised sushi restaurant and visited an old shogun's hangout with some very poor tiger paintings ( though in fairness the artists had never actually seen a tiger ). After all that we jumped on a bullet train back to Tokyo to catch our plane home. Booo!

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Photos

Our host wrestles with the temptation to smile
He is most anxious to contact "Joseph Dormer" from Blackpool whom he thinks Sara should know having been born there.