Another thing you can do in Kyoto, besides speed tourism, is night hiking. But one of the key considerations for night hiking is that you have to do it at night. So we had to do a bunch of boring stuff in the day to get to it, and I'm going to write about that first. Actually, something awesome happened the night before, after speed tourism. We met up with Maria, who was also at our hostel in Tokyo, and went over to the local sake bar. This sake bar had exactly seven seats in it, and all of them were around the bar. It also had a karaoke machine. This place ticked a lot of boxes for us. We clapped along while a local man sang along to a Japanese song, and then Mitch, Mike
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