It’s hard to believe its already time to leave Tokyo and head to Kyoto, but nothing can top the Ghibli Store and the Robot Restaurant yesterday. (If you haven’t watched the videos of the Robot Restaurant in action, head over to the Japan 2017 photos on my photos page! It was a show to top all shows.
Sweet Couch
We’ve just had breakfast and soon we’ll be on the Shinkansen bullet train and on our way to Kyoto! We will be traveling between 150-200mph at any given time!
It’s a double Shinkansen!
The Japanese Countryside
We reached Kyoto in about two and a half hours. Once we got checked in, we made a reservation at a restaurant we went to six years ago the last time we were here. We had to show the concierge pictures of the inside of the restaurant we had taken the last time and the geolocation from our photos app to find it, but she knew where it was and we have a reservation for tomorrow night!
With just a few hours before dinner, we decided to see one of the temples illuminated at night. It was packed with people from everywhere imaginable, but totally immersive and worth the trip.
Pond with Japanese Maple
Projection show in Zen Garden
Japanese Lanterns
We even walked through a section where everyone took their shoes off to walk through some of the older traditional buildings!
When we got back to the hotel, we decided to have sushi for dinner. This was the best we’d had yet, even though my jet lag was causing me to have waves of nausea and feel just generally insane. I am essentially completely reversed between New York and Tokyo so my noon is midnight and my midnight is noon – it is the biggest time change I’ve had to deal with and Tim is doing much better.
We’ll have to see how tomorrow goes! We are planning more temples to walk through during the day and we are both looking forward to the restaurant we both loved so much last time we were in Kyoto!