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Had aimed to go for a run this morning, but we all hit the snooze - then panicked and got ready!

Spent the first half of today doing a guided walking tour thanks to a recommendation from Canberra friends Andrew and Kate, which was excellent. If anyone we know is coming to Kyoto highly recommend this. Our host mixed local knowledge with Japanese history - and just enough about her own life to make sure you left a strong tip at the end.

The tour ended up the hill at Kiyomizu Temple so we spent some time visiting the places in the area we had seen on Instagram including the “cloud cake” cafe (Kumonocha Cafe). They were genuinely nice cakes, although Clare wasn’t convinced. Which is a shame, she was the most excited about it. They had a green tea flavour which put her off a bit.

When we had exhausted ourselves on the hills there, we caught an uber to the Golden Pavillion (Kinkaku-ji) and walked the gardens - with a couple of thousand of our closest friends.

Pretty hard to take a bad photo there.

Caught the bus back to the Airbnb (with a couple of thousand of our closest friends) and then out to dinner at Tare Katsu - literally under our Airbnb - which is the best pork katsu I’ve had in my life. Don’t take my word for it, they had a line up of people wanting to try it.

Then for something different we wandered the streets for some retail therapy.

To finish off the night we grabbed a drink in a bar - Krissi had an interesting sparkling sake and I had an IPA from Japanese brewery.

One more full day to go in Japan before we leave Friday night.Leggi altro