Bags packed and off we went through the quiet streets. It is so quiet in the area, that as we pull our trolley bags along, the noise makes us feel really embarrassed! We walked until we found the recommended sushi restaurant. We stopped here and enjoyed the relaxing style of the sushi restaurant. We picked one item at a time from the conveyor belt, ate it, discussed it and moved on to the next. We had various raw fish dishes that we had never tried before. One was amazing and just melted in your mouth. It was such a nice place and an amazing meal.
Next we caught the tube to Osaka station and looked for another train station, inside the main train station, to buy tickets to Kyoto. We found a ticket machine but all text was Japanese characters, so we were totally confused. A nice friendly man offered to help and in no time we had 2 tickets.
The train arrived and was rather luxurious. In fact we thought it must be the wrong one, but nope this was it. It was an express train and got us to Kyoto in about 40 minutes. Through the windows we saw many things; mountains, houses, more houses and cleanliness!
We arrived on time, jumped off and found our hostel. We dropped our bags in our capsules and headed out into the historic city of Kyoto. It was getting a little dark but we found some great temples, traditional streets and lots of Japanese people dressed up. Japanese tourists to Kyoto really embrace their ancient traditions and wear beautiful traditional clothes. Kimonos everywhere!
We walked towards the Gion area after dark, Geisha spotting. However tonight there was none to be seen We didn't eat out as the restaurants we found were a bit too nice (extremely pricey!). Instead we bought a huge bag of fresh Udon noodles, added sauce and they were delicious!
