Right we have arrived safely in Kyoto and all is well. The hotel room is nothing like as nice as in Tokyo, but it will do. The train ride here was fucking expensive but was not a bad trip at all. Plenty of space and high speed through some lovely countryside for the most part. We wandered around Kyoto Station this evening, its a very new, very modern building with lots of shops and restruants followed by a trip up the Kyoto Tower Hotel for quite a stunning view of the sorrounding area.

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