Our time in japan has been steadily improving. On Thursday we went to Kiyomizu temple in kyoto, which was in a hillside setting surrounded by trees. The entrance had several brightly coloured pagodas which lead to the main temple. Inside there were 2 love stones 10m apart, saying goes if you can walk from one to the other with your eyes shut your love wish will be granted. Obviously I had to have a go however it was harder than i thought with the noise of all the...

We arrived into Kyoto after a blistering ride on bullet train, 500k in 2 hours, very efficient and smooth. Kyoto is a much smaller city, and is less busy and less western than Tokyo. Thankfully a few more sights to see. Yesterday we went to a few temples, which were close by. The first is supposed to be the biggest wooden temple in the world but it was covered due to it been renovated. The second temple was really impressive inside, 1000 gold ornate buddha statue...

Tokyo not quite what we were hoping for. Its a bizarre place where ladies wear kimonos next to people in masks. There isn't a centre as such, just lots of districts, that we have spent the last few days working our way round. Different types of people seem to congregate in different areas. Saturday we went for a walk round the grounds of the Imperial palace where the king lives. The gardens were nice but not as pristine as you would expect. We then went to Ginz...