Rossett Japan Exchange - Day 5

This is the fifth day of the exchange and today we set off for Kyoto.

We woke up early today, around 7 o'clock to pack our bags for Kyoto. We went up for a breakfast which was a mix of Japanese and English food like usual. At about 8:40 we set off for the train station, called Idabashi, where we caught 2 local trains, one to Ochanomizu and one to Tokyo station.

After that we caught a bullet train to Kyoto, which took us 3 hours, people took this chance to go on their iPads, read a book or sleep. During our train journey we experienced our first bad weather, SNOW!

When we arrived at Kyoto we had a very long taxi ride to our the Utano youth hostel. It has an ancient Japan style and is very nice. We then caught the bus to the nishiki market for some food. We all went to search for food in groups, Ollie, Josh and Breezey had a quail sausage.

After that we had an uphill walk to a hill temple, it was very impressive. We got some cool pictures of the city below and Brighdie, Monet and Holly joined a Shinto ritual.
 

Blog post by Josh Breeze