Pretty good first meal

Ok so the hotel is kinda far from Kyoto station but quite honestly it was hard to find a place that has a nice bathroom. King bed is nice too. It's close to a bus stop at least! And the hotel is pretty new.

First meal was a nearby place on our Michelin bib gourmand list. From our research as well I feel like prices in Kyoto and Osaka are a little lower than Tokyo; you can still get a fairly decent feed for 1000yen or lower whereas that's becoming more of a rarity in Tokyo. This did not disappoint. We got the (demiglace) tonkatsu, and sauce katsudon. Both had rather fatty but also super tender pork. The demiglace was a bit eh it was kinda like gravy but I quite liked the sauce which is more traditional katsu style. They had a yellow mustard condiment on the side that tasted like wasabi. Total for both, just under 2k yen so very very reasonable. (For some reason especially, some katsu places are becoming more expensive)

Anyway, great start to our trip. We walked down south to a shopping mall, and also visited Animate nearby. Unfortunately we wouldn't make it for the death note exhibition (just off by one day). Spotted the discounted (500y) Uniqlo baby clothes but didn't have our passports for duty free so will have to return another day.Read more