Written by Today our Nishiwaki hosts took us an hour bus-ride to Kyoto. Here, we visited a temple and a shrine, a craft store, a textile factory and shop, and watched a kimono fashion show.
I had a chance to get some nice photos of all of these outings, and I have attached them below.
We had a great lunch at a tofu restaurant (who could guess there are so many ways to cook tofu?), with the exception of Susie who was provided with the “kids meal” which was a bento-box full of a variety of Japanese foods. I think this may have been to keep her out of the boiling tofu pot in the middle of the table.
Many of us also enjoyed a dinner-time visit to Kyoto’s incredible new train station/shopping mall, where, in the words of my host, it feels like you ride escalators right up to heaven. (The top floor of the train station is 12 stories above the ground, and the open air domed roof rises another hundred feet above that….unfortunately, it was late and I have no pictures)
We are spending the night at a hotel here in Kyoto.
I have much more to say, but it is getting late, so I’ll save it for another entry.
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