We had a hearty (if expensive) breakfast in the all you can eat breakfast buffet in the airport hotel in Osaka.
Our accommodation in Kyoto has a check in time of 16:00. We were just pondering what to do for the day when our host messaged me and said that our accommodation was ready if we wanted to check in early. So we hopped on a train and made our way to Kyoto station
Some of the trains in the Kansai area are decorated with cartoon and other characters. Our train was a Hello Kitty train
We are staying not all that far from where we stayed last year when we were here. Our house is nowhere near as pretty as the one we were in last year but it is very, very much more practical. It has a couch and a dining table, for instance.
We are very close to the Fushimi Inari shrine which has all the Torii gates and the fox statues. It's an easy walk from here. So we went.
We had lunch in an udon cafe en route. They have a set piece with udon noodles, fried chicken and a beer. I don't drink beer. I had a grapefruit sour instead
It was a beautiful, beautiful day for an amble up a mountainside
We went looking for a supermarket. I asked a nice lady with a small child in tow (in Japanese) if there was a supermarket. She replied in English and led us off towards one. We chatted in English as we went, then she sent us on and turned back. She had obviously gone out of her way to take us. It was a proper supermarket, not a convenience store or small grocery store. We had a good wander round and came back to the house with provisions for the evening.
Early to bed. We had averaged 3 or 4 hours sleep for the previous couple of nights and I was very sleepy.
A good day to start our Japanese adventures
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