How do you make a 4 hour car ride into a 6 hour sleeper bus?
Rest stops. Lots of rest stops.
At 8:00 bought a city bus pass I got on a city bus bound for the north part of the city.
And this palace? Eat your heart out Gold Finger! It's covered in GOLD.
I toured the Nijo-jo palace and was weirded out but the shoddy construction on the floors. THEY ALL SQUEAKED when you walked on them! Only to find out, this was done on purpose...In order to avoid assassination by pesky ninjas and others that wanted to do either the occupants harm...the floors were designed to squeak as to alert the guards.
I hiked thru some bamboo gardens that looked like they were right out of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon movie.
After that...I was on a hunt for one of the infamous geisha....
Kyoto is supposed to be home to the 100 or so that are left in this world. Sadly...they are about as elusive as unicorns...
Somewhere around this time I started to get a common ailment in Kyoto. Temple overload...
Its not that the temples aren't beautiful...it's that you begin to ask yourself...is this temple more beautiful than the temple I saw 15 minutes ago. If the answer is no...really...why bother taking a picture...
Fortunately...I still had some amazing things to see.
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