We have a few miles to do today to get to Kyoto. We left nice and
early and hit the Tomei Expressway and then the NEW Tomei Expressway and there
was very little traffic on the motorways and much less than we expected. Our
route took us South of Nagoya and via the large Sea Port where you could see hundreds
of Toyota cars awaiting shipment and shortly afterwards there was a huge fun
park. We stopped for a coffee and then about an hor later for some petrol, this
little Nissan Note seems to conserve fuel well with ECO flashing lights if you
push too hard on the GO pedal.
We arrived in Kyoto and found the Hotel after a short diversion but our
looking on Google Earth helped us finds this newish hotel with Hotel rooms
being very small. We parked in the car park, well actually there is room for
about six cars but they have this mechanism which lifts the cars in to the air
in a stack enabling them to store twenty four cars in the space of six. One
hour later we were en route walking to Kyoto Station where we found a Travelex
to cash in some T/C’s and also a spaghetti
lunch and then on walking around outside the station and we came to the first cultural
location an amazing building called the Higashi Honganji Temple which is the
largest wooden structure in the world and most impressive it is.
By this time it was about 5pm and so we started slowly walking back to
the Hotel and buying some bread to go with our cheese and wine which we planned
for eating tonight.
It had been a long day and we were both tired and so did not action
the blog or photos but watch a very old ‘Star Wars’ film on TV until we dropped
off about 9.30 pm.
A good but tiring day
