Kyoto

The next morning, we woke up, had breakfast and caught a train to from Tokyo Station to Kyoto which took just under 3 hours. The train could travel up to about 500 km/ph. If you mix up the letters in Kyoto you get Tokyo. When we got to our hotel we looked at our room and dropped off our bags. The room was really cool with a big wooden bath. We left the hotel and started to explore Kyoto. We walked across a bridge down a river until we reached an old area called Gion. We saw these people called Geishas which are rare to see. The streets were old fashioned, there were old shops and no cars. After we walked around for a while we saw a couple of Geishas. Afterwards we went to look for dinner. After about half an hour we found a place to have dinner. The dinner was really good, I had the teriyaki set. After we had dinner we walked back to our hotel room along the river and went to bed.

On the second and last full day we got up early and had breakfast western breakfast which was more Japanese that western. When we finished breakfast, we went back to our room to brush our teeth. Then we walked to a Buddhist Temple that had over 1000 angel statues, 28 warrior gods and one huge Buddha. When we finished walking around there we went to a big sacred mountain called Inari. The pathways were really cool they had big orange frames around them.  When we got to about halfway up the mountain my mum said she’ll just wait and let us go to the top because of the problem with her leg. The walk to the top was really long. When we got to the top we had a really good view from everywhere. My dad took a couple of photos and then we went back down. When we found mum we went back to the bottom of the mountain. When we finally got to the bottom we went to a little street with small shops on it and ate some street food on a stick. One of the interesting things we ate were octopus balls called Takoyaki. On the way back to the hotel we went into two more temples one of which my mum didn’t go into. Then my dad and I went back into the hotel room and sat around for a while and then ordered room service and got pizza. After we had dinner we went to bed.

While we have been travelling around we have been counting how many steps we have done every day and on that day I put my Dad’s phone in my pocket and I got 30,183 steps!