written by loz and typed by me. He's the talented one, I just do the monkey work. Day 1 Arriving in Japan to the immaculate airport, flowing beautifully smoothly through the system and standing waiting for the Shinkansen bullet train. Marvelling still at the sight of it coming into the station and further at being delivered to Kyoto just over 2 hours later after the smoothest and fastest train ride we've ever had (300kmph) Laughing at the size of our 10 x6 ro...

Had an interesting time today. we were planning on taking the train from Kyoto to the outskirts to visit the Miho museum which sounded amazing from the reviews. It turned out that it was closed, so we had to review our plans. Shock horror! We decided to take advantage of our rail passes and take the train south of Kyoto to a place called Inara, whcih featured another load of shrines, massive park and trail of 4km of orange-red shrine gates through the wooded hill...