Day 2: Kobe to Kyoto

After all the shopping from the first day, i think we drove all the way to Kobe and stayed at the hotel there. Not quite sure where since everything was in Japanese and the itinery was in chinese. The breakfast came with the hotel room stay, and all of the meals were buffet breakfast. They will have Japanese breakfast, rice with preserved vege, nato etc and the typical bacon and eggs.

After breakfast, we took a drive to kyoto. So bye bye to Kobe and Hello temples. The first thing was to take a train into the mountains, then the walk through the bamboos to get to the other side of the kyoto area which has quite a few different temples. BUT! we did not go into any of them. Instead, we went for lunch after only 30 mins to walk around in the town, absolutely not enough for a beautiful place like this

Bamboos and a big... HUGE bamboo shoot

This is bento for the day. The normal lunch you get from a japanese place. Except that they have this wasabi shitake.... yumm very nice. Anyway, after lunch we went on the bus again and this time off to the famous temple.

these are the entrance, pagoda and another little shrine.

This is the actual temple which sort of hangs off the cliff and many many people hanging off the side too. After the temple visits, that was pretty much the end of the day. so off to the hotel now. We are staying at a hotel next to the largest lake in japan. The hotel has a common bath with hot spring and every customer is provided with the robe to wear for the bath. Supposedly, you take a bath first, then come back for dinner. But most of us went for dinner first. Dinner was not too bad. At least a lot prettier than lunch. Small little squid sashimi, a little hot pot, unagi, tofu, tempura, miso soup, etc. So that kind of ended the day.