Today was mainly traveling. And lots of it. We went from Tokyo, finally, to Kyoto, which was about 2 hours or so. We actually made such good time because we were taking a Shinkansen, or Bullet Train, the entire way, and there weren't that many stops. It is a lot of fun taking the trains. Part of me likes the way they're set up over here because they seem like a better system than a ton of cars stuck in gridlock or buses stopped by that traffic. Just saying.
Once in Kyoto, it was a free day, because there really wasn't anything planned. So Eric, Ryan, Dylan, Kao, and me went looking for a couple swordshops for Dylan (he really wanted to get a authentic Japanese sword, or at least a good one). That was quite the adventure. To say the least, we walked around for three hours all around Kyoto.
We walked into one swordshop and took a look at the prices there. They were insane. A very good blade went up to around a couple thousand, which isn't really surprising, but sheesh.... So we continued to walk around the city, looking for the other swordshop Dylan googled back at the hotel. We ended up walking around two hours to no avail, but it wasn't that bad. We spent the entire time talking and having fun, perusing various shops, and eating. Oh, we stopped at a restaurant to get a quick bite to eat; Kao was 'just a little hungry.' We went in and he ate up not only the first meal he ordered, but went back for a separate second meal. I was hungry too, but not that 'little hungry.'
Once we got back to the hotel, after our exhausting day, we crashed.
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