Day Ten. KYOTO. Today was scheduled for the basic Kyoto sightseeing - shrines etc.. But we felt a bit shrined out and decided to spend the day looking around, shopping & later in the afternoon going to the gion district. The Toyoko Inn we stayed at in Kyoto was right on top of Karasuma station and an easy walk to Gion so it ended up being a pretty good location. Also next to this (and pretty much in every city) there was a Diamaru Department Store. We had practically every meal at Kyoto from the foodcourt in the dept store! Not that we couldn't afford to eat out - we were just obsessed with the absolute variety on offer - everything you could want you can find in one of those food courts! Each lunch or dinner we would buy a selection of random japanese meals & treats and stuff ourselves silly. Given the amount of packaging the Japanese love, our hotel floor would end up with bags full of food packaging (sorry environment). If you do go to the food courts, try the strawberry cakes, (or any baked goods) and the mochi creams = delicious!
Ok so after stuffing ourselves and shopping (we bought a big duffel bag to fit all of our purchases from the last week in) we headed to Gion to check out the streets. Gion has lovely old streets and buildings, we didn't come across any real geisha, just the tourists who had paid to dress up (being followed around by a woman to photograph them..) but it was nice to walk around the streets and take it all in. We went just around sunset - it would probably be a good idea to go a bit later, not much was happening yet and there wasnt much to do besides lurk around with a camera in case you did catch a glimpse of something. My bf was happy though because on our way back to the hotel we stopped by the food court again....
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