Taka-kanaka

Again a few really interesting days with the planning of a trip to Kyoto together with Marco-san, a visit to Ginza, a museum and the imperial gardens.

I have been dubbed Taka Kanaka ( as a generic Japanese name), by a friend Kosuke, to fill out an online form for reserving the night-bus from Tokyo-Kyoto. It turns out the shinkansen (ultra-fast train) is also ultra expensive, so we are going to take the night-bus. Right after the end of Kan Geiko we will leave from shinjuku station at 23.30. the bus arrives early in the morning to Kyoto. In Kyoto we will explore the city and also a the Goldon pavilion... kinkaku-ji. Very exciting... more will follow!

Yesterday after training we went for some breakfast with the boys

Later we went to Ginza to check out the area. I saw some interesting items as I walked in a few random shops

Feel like an orange? As they come in at about ~70 Euro's it's a bargain! Of course top quality (genetically engineered)

The tour was continued to the Tsukiji area where we saw a budist temple

In the evening we enjoyed some beautiful views from a top condo

Fantastic!

The next day we decided to explore the imperial gardens area were we found japanese gardners work religiously on the trees

And a statue of a warrior

At one point we were able to enter the water gated outer gardens