First morning in Kyoto time for another portion of history!
But first breakfast! The good old toast & jam will keep me nourished for the next 2 days.
First stop today is Nijo-jo Castle. A place where a shogunate started and ended in probably the same room. The inside is decorated with murals in golden paint. Really impressive to walk around in! This ground castle is surrounded by a pretty nice garden to walk trough.
Next stop was the Manga Museum, for some reason entrance was free and am I glad it was. Next to the giant collection of manga, a “what is manga?” exhibition and plaster models from manga artists’ hands there isn’t that much to see. The cool part about this is that it’s located in an old school building, thus it also has a ‘history route’ about the school.
It was time for lunch, so while I’m here why not try out the Manga Museum Café?
Saw they had Omurice, so I just had to take it 🙂
Next up, the park around the Imperial Palace. As the palace is only open a few days a year. I didn’t bother rushing there. I wish I had done though, as today was one of the special days it was open to the public… The park hosts some other nice buildings of the older clans that got rebuild. These are definitely worth a watch.
My last planned stop for the day was a visit to the local rivers delta. Why you ask? They placed stepping stones trough the delta in the form of turtles!
After that I passed by another shopping district and the Kyoto Tower by night. For dinner I decided to get something from the local 7/11. Yakisoba!
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