Japan: Temple to GT-R Ratio Seems Off
Posted December 31, 2008 – 2:52 am in: Japan, Travel
So far this is my third trip to Japan for 2008 and it’s the first one I’ve spent this year doing tourist things.
We’re in Kyoto for a week to checkout the sites as we always missed it since we were here in Kyoto in 2004 for the first time.
Checked out the temples of Rouanji, Kinkakuji and Tennrouji. Checked out the fish mongers down at Nishikiichiba, went shopping at the giant covered mall and topped it off with another night in Gion eating. We missed out the biggest most obvious temple here (Higashi-honganji) as we’d seen it quite a lot previously.
I recommend all these stops as well as a thourough investigation of the Kyoto Station building itself. It’s a truly massive thing which needs at least half a day to explore the restaurants and levels.
I also recommend being as cheap ass as you can and catching the city buses and subways and using their 1-day and 2-day multipasses to save money.
Subway + City bus full day passes for unlimited rides are just 1,200 yen and you can get damn far on them.
My camera’s been busy but I’ve not fully gone through all our photos yet. Tina has a new Nikon D60 and is figuring it out with good results but it means 2x the photos to sort through.
Back to Tokyo tomorrow for New Years Eve! Happy new year!!
