I was there with Vocal Line 20 years ago (can't believe it's been that long!) and it was marvellous. Would really love to go back to Japan with my family sometime and see more of the country than just this beautiful place.
BTW idk if you drink beer but there's a little craft beer joint called Kyoto Beer Lab near Shichijo-ohashi bridge on Kiyamachi-dori (little street next to a tributary of the Kamo River running parallel to it). Good brews, fun atmosphere.
Vicariously enjoying your trip, thanks for sharing! Kid2’s bucket list has visit Japan right at the top. He’s completely enamoured with the country and the culture.
I envy your trip! Let me suggest a fantastic hole in the wall restaurant called Fukakusa Ramen Toriton. It’s near the Inari station, which is the stop for the Thousand Torii Gates. And the Sanjūsangendō temple with the 1001 wooden statues is one of the most stunning things I’ve ever seen.
My Japanese is certainly not what it once was but I can still at least ask a stranger if this train is going to a particular station and I count that as a win
おめでとう！
(I'm slowly, slowly trying to learn Japanese. It's incredibly difficult, so congrats. Have you been to Takayama? Really enjoyed it when I visited earlier this year...)
“Train-hôtel-restaurant-beverage” should be an official marker in language learning classes. I’m always nerdily proud when I manage to visit a ticket office in Japan and they give me the Japanese-only ticket without English subtitles.
Ahhh, I am so glad to have ‘discovered’ you here in the bluest sky. So many folks I have been following for years were either gone outright or completely overtaken by just garbage posts on x.
It's the bus schedule that get me. At sufficiently large stations figuring out which of ~12 numbered posts maps to which subset of numbered busses I need to get to point B when the schedule on the post is sunbleached beyond legibility is so beyond my abilities 😂
I had to get a Wi-Fi password from the front desk of a hotel in Japanese, which was probably the most difficult and the highest stakes of the entire trip
Google maps is brilliant for directions and advising you which train carriage to take for the most efficient subway connection and which station entrance/exit to take.
When I was there over 25 years ago... the Golden Temple on the west side of town, and the larger temples on the hill on the east hills were a good visit.
I liked being able to hand my luggage to a porter in Kyoto.. take the Shinkansen, transfer and go to Narita, and pick up luggage in Vancouver
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bookmarking this since i’m visiting Japan in March :)
The dialect is pretty impenetrable though, even for native speakers (I guess it’s like Appalachian English or something!)
BTW idk if you drink beer but there's a little craft beer joint called Kyoto Beer Lab near Shichijo-ohashi bridge on Kiyamachi-dori (little street next to a tributary of the Kamo River running parallel to it). Good brews, fun atmosphere.
#photography
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(I'm slowly, slowly trying to learn Japanese. It's incredibly difficult, so congrats. Have you been to Takayama? Really enjoyed it when I visited earlier this year...)
I liked being able to hand my luggage to a porter in Kyoto.. take the Shinkansen, transfer and go to Narita, and pick up luggage in Vancouver