It’s amazing. Impossibly beautiful gardens. Such care in making little things look pleasing. Design so restrained, simple, tasteful. Where there is ornamentation, such as carving on a temple, the colour More… →
We stayed in our room most of the following day to sort out and back up computer files and research Taipei – it had suddenly dawned on me that we More… →
The hotel breakfast buffet was…interesting. Triangles of pressed rice triangles with a sesame crust, miso soup, really hard sour pickled cherries, seaweed, some cooked vegetables. Some miniature croissants were the More… →
We took a stopping train to Osaka, but even so it took less than an hour. Since budget accommodation can be hard to find in Kyoto, some tourists stay in More… →
As Nishihonganji temple was literally around the corner from our apartment we thought we should at least take a peek, even though it’s not one of Kyoto’s top sights. It More… →
Of course, with a new camera comes the need for a new case, so it was back into Bic. Taking the bus to the station served as a dry run More… →
It was another perfect spring morning when we took the train to Fushimi Inari, just two stops from Kyoto. The temple grounds start right in front of the station, so even More… →
It was so sunny and warm the next morning that I dug my sandals out of my backpack; they hadn’t seen daylight since Kuala Lumpur. From the station we took More… →
The internet said that conbinis (convenience stores) sold day passes for the buses, so we picked up a couple from Lawsons around the corner and headed for the city centre, More… →
If we were going to get around Kyoto we needed a bus map; the subway just doesn’t have the same kind of reach as it does in Tokyo (where we More… →