I remembered to take a picture of our breakfast at the hotel in Tokyo. The pastries were delicious. You can see how much I liked them by the amount of them I had on my plate. Actually I probably could have eaten more but I didn’t want to look like a pig. The salad is a cabbage salad with some dressing. That was good too. Also they had some eggs. They were a weird texture that I didn’t really enjoy but Corey seemed to like them.
After breakfast we checked out of our hotel and headed to the train station to catch the shinkansen (bullet train) to Kyoto. The train we were on travels at about 278 km/h or 165 mph! I think my sister Krystal would have gotten sick because she gets car sick so easily. The train goes so fast that when you look out the window all the stuff like trees and bridges become an extreme strobe. I just sat with my head down until there was a small town with fields or something that wasn’t so close to the train.
After a quick train transfer we walked about 1km to our hotel. It’s not actually a hotel but it’s a bed and breakfast. It’s pretty cool. There is a common kitchen and dinning area that we share with everyone else. We have our own room and we sleep on futons ontop of tatami mats. Our room feels bigger than our last hotel but we also don’t have our own bathroom we have to share like you would at a hostel.
After getting situated here we decided to explore a little by walking to the local grocery store and then getting something to eat at an okonomiyaki place. The store was fun to see. It reminds me of the china town market in Salt Lake City that we like to stalk up on our Japanese sauces. We had a really yummy dinner at a little place just up the rode. Corey had Osaka style pork Okonomiyaki. I ate pork Yaki soba. It was really good but I didn’t really care for the Bonito flakes they put on top. Bonito flakes are thin fish flakes that will wave and kind of melt with the heat of the food. It has a fishy flavoring that I didn’t really like. Tomorrow we will explore more of the sites in Kyoto and I’m super excited.
