Yaaaaaawn. Travelling is a bit exhausting. Or I am an old lady at heart. Maybe both :p
Today we planned to sleep in but were both awake by 7:30am. We checked out of the hotel, left our luggage and went off to explore Kyoto Imperial Palace and Ginkajuji Temple. Turns out you need a permit to go into the palace annnnnd we certainly didn’t have that. So off to the temple we went, it is known as the silver pavilion but is nowhere as flash as the golden pavilion from the other day. The gardens were beautiful though and the view of Kyoto from above the gardens was also pretty impressive.
Then it was luggage collection and bullet train time! 2hrs 16mins to Tokyo which i read through and B napped/listened to music for. We are only one station away from Tokyo Station (at Hachibori) so although it was a long trek from one part of Tokyo station to another (970m!) the actual train transfer was easy.
When we finally got here and could drop all our bags it was nice to see they had folded pretty paper cranes on our robes 🙂
We were going to go to Tokyo tower tonight but we are both tired and a bit grumpy from travelling. Especially me, I hate the train stations and how crowded they are. When you have a suitcase people get really narky at you as well – interesting comparison to the UK where at nearly every station people would help or at least look sympathetic when I was faced with huge flights of stairs.
Disneyland in the morning maybe? Max temp here tomorrow is 5C so I’ll let B decide if he’s up for it lol. If not, we can maybe go to the zoo or I’ll go see Mickey on my own! Gotta get them Mickey Mouse ears for Lana and Hunter….
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