After 3 nights in Osaka we got the train to Kyoto. We left at 1pm and got to Kyoto just after 3pm. The hotel was round the corner from the train station so was easy to find but was tiny. There was no space to move in the room.
We chilled in the room till 5pm as they do free hot drinks from 5-8pm downstairs.
They have a public bath which turned out to be an Onsen - naked public bath. Separate men and women. We didn't use it and didn't realise the hotel had it but guessing people booked it for that as it was quite busy see people going down to use it.
After our hot drink we had a wander round to see the area and went to the supermarket to get some dinner and had a really early night.
The first day we went to the Bamboo forest which is getting its own post and the second day we went to Fushimi Inari Taisha which is also getting its own post.
On the 3rd day - check out day we walked to see Nidec Kyoto Tower. It also happens to be where Kyoto train station is. We went to get bullet train tickets to go to Tokyo from the station. The ticket cost £67 each and was an extra £5 to get reserved seats as we didn't know how busy it was going to be and wanted to have seats where we could put our luggage.
Kyoto version of a scramble crossing
We walked through the station and there's a free sky garden you can go to with views of the city. Not as high as the Nidec Tower but still high enough to get a good 360 panorama view.
The dirty glass was annoying but it was very windy up there
On the way back to the hotel to get our luggage we went to Higashi Hongan-ji Temple. It's free to walk around but you do have to take your shoes off. They give you carrier bags to put your shoes in.
We had something to eat at this place that was round the corner from the hotel.
Rice krispies in my noodles
Grabbed our luggage then head to the station to get the bullet train to Tokyo.
The leg room is really big and we could have put our luggage with us in front but we didn't realise this and ended booking the later train with reserve seats so we could sit together. We did tell the guy how big our cases were so he should have told us.
The bullet train just felt like a normal train. It didn't feel like it was going super fast. Like if I didn't know or no-one told me would have just thought I was on a normal train. It took 2 hrs 15 mins to get to Tokyo.
Bamboo forest next...
