This morning Mayumi made a nice breakfast for us (yesterday too, as well as dinner on Friday). Then she gave us a lift to the train station.
We are in Kyoto now, we are staying in a quiet and very cosy apartment with a small kitchen so we can make our own breakfast in the mornings.
Kyoto is also known for the Kyoto agreement on Climate Change:
Kyoto protocol
Today we visited several temples, shrines and pagodas.
I have to admit that we are disappointed with Japan. We expected something really exotic and different from what we know, and Japanese cities are modern, industrialised and influenced by the USA. There is not much tradition left as we imagined it. As Fausto says the country seems to be one big factory with sleeping quarters.
Kyoto however is the only city we visited that has a bit of the old traditional Japan, a district (I don't know why the word "ghetto" comes to my mind) in the east part of the city where you can get a sense of the Japan that you see in old films. We visited this part of Kyoto (with Chionin Temple and Gion district where the geisha women perform) and as the city is famous for its Japanese atmosphere, million of tourists were visiting it too. Everyone wanted to see a little bit of the traditional Japan.
Like the previous days, we came back to our cosy apartment exhausted.
In the pictures: saying goodby to Mayumi and her family and in near Chionin Temple in Kyoto.
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