Day 6, June 29

Sight seeing is hard work when it is so hot and humid! Breakfast was just around the corner at a whole foods cafe where we enjoyed Granola. Muffins and biscuits. Tess had a traditional Japanese breakfast which had rice, soup and pickled things that we dont know what they were as well as a small salad. Toast and Jam is so much simpler!

I had a hot drink which was amazake and orange juice served hot. Amazake is a fermented rice drink. It was actually quite nice.

Off to see the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove and then the Kinkaku-Ji Temple. We walked through the lovely Japanese gardens at the temple and then found a tiny restaurant down a side street and had some Japanese currys for lunch – very cute place that could only seat 10 on the floor – this was our first seated on the floor restaurant.

After lunch it was off to the Kyoto Imperial Palace set in the large Palace Gardens.

Dinner was another very small Restaurant in the Gion District. A teppanyaki restaurant run by husband and wife. Delicious sake, wagu beef and black sesame ice cream. We had a walk through the Gion district and spotted some Geisha’s,

Kinkaku-Ji Temple

Kyoto Imperial Palace