Erica & Todd go to Japan: Day 7: Kyoto

Walked down the Philosopher's Walk along a canal. Visited a whole bunch of temples. Erica may be able to enumerate if you care to know which. Quite peaceful and restful and all that.

At the "end" of the Walk, leading up to the big Temple, the road is lined with shops, many of which sell Wagashi, which are a style of traditional Japanese confection, perfected in Kyoto. Erica made friends with the two young women working in one of the shops. They said that she was very "cute"! :) We think that she gets reactions like this due to her speaking Japanese. They gave us lots of samples (great business tactic!) and we ended up buying a box of black sesame and white sesame treats, which, by the way, were delicious!

Had a good udon lunch (until some ass started chain smoking nearby) then vanilla-green tea soft serve twist for dessert. We walked probably 8 miles today and my feet are sore!

For dinner walked down to a supposed food maket area, which was sadly closed. So we got some mediocre (and not too pricey) sushi after walking around a bit. Found a 100 yen store and picked up a sweet camera case and a few other small thing. Then walked back to the hotel.

I get templed out pretty easily. They were all very beautiful.