Today was our first day in the beautiful city of Kyoto. I must say that things here are so poorly set up that it is almost impossible for any foreign tourist not to get lost. My dad and I have gotten lost so many times it isn't funny.

We left Nara at 10:39 on a bullet train and it took us an hour to get to Kyoto. Once in the Kyoto station, my dad made us eat at a Kaiten-sushi place, or a place where the sushi is served to you on a conveyor belt, a style of restaurant that is particular to the Kansai region.

Next we went to tour hotel...

If you think a Ritz was a good hotel, then think again. We're staying at The Westin Miyako hotel and five star hotel. This place is even better than the Ritz and is way classier than anything else I've ever been in, not to mention we getting it for two days at well under 50% of the asking price.

There really wasn't time for us to do any sightseeing today so we went to Nijo Castle to see the place where the Shogun would stay during his rule of the country from about 1600-1800 (if memory serves me right...). At the castle we met these four or five junior high school girls who wanted to ask us some questions for their homework. Quite nice you people and the their teacher was ready to help translate for us if their was something the girls didn't know how to say in English. Then after all of the questions were done, they took a few pictures and we got some too and parted our ways.

On a completely separate note, you have not lived until you've had a coke or a pepsi from over here. Oh my goodness, there about twice as sweet as the ones in the U.S. and four times as good.

um... yeah... that's it for today.

Cheers

Aengus no Kitsune