Yesterday we took a 35000 step 9 hour walking tour of Kyoto. Starting from our hotel (adjacent to the station) we first visited Higashi temple, said to have the biggest wooden building in the world:
This was followed by Nijo castle, which had an exceptional audio guide that over two hours told us all we wanted to know about the 400-year-old castle:
In the afternoon we hit the (famous) shopping district with its endless covered streets that shaded us from the sun.
We saw everything from gold poop statues…
To grilled sparrow…
To Japanese girls in kimono playing UFO catchers…
Plus we bought a giant duffle bag for the return trip; absolutely necessary due to how stuffed our cases had become 🙂
