Japan - From Kyoto To Tokyo - Various Artists

Kyoto, the OLD capital of Japan.

Advantages: Cheap area, gorgeous attractions and temples, good for short visits!
Disadvantages: Limited activity so best for -5 day visits.

I visited Japan at the end of this July, and have only just returned. I must say it was the holiday of a lifetime. Flights cost £900 each via British Airways. We visited Kyoto for 3 days. We got there via Shinkansen from Tokyo, and stayed at the New Miyako hotel, just over the road from Kyoto station. Kyoto was absolutely gorgeous and very easy to navigate around. You can get just about anywhere you want to from Kyoto Station. There are buses, subway trains etc. 220 yen is all you need for a bus ride to anywhere along the Kyoto bus lines. That works out at around £1. You just hop on the bus and pay when you get off. We visited Toei movie land which was a bit of a dissapointment. www.eigamura30.com. Looking at brochures we expected amazing movie scenes etc but it left a lot to be desired. A lot of it was shut off, and most ...

Jellypigs 18.08.2008 · Read full review
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Key to Kyoto

Advantages: Enormous temples, exciting centre & good wooded walks.
Disadvantages: Disappointment if you let the guidebooks build it up too much & expensive.

grid without nuisance or charm, listening to the Japanese talk about its mundane sounding wonders, and reading about them in a rather pompous Lonely Planet (most of the authors of this edition live in Kyoto we discover) I was quite ready to pass it by entirely. However, flight times and weekends falling as they did I found that I had three days at the end of my stay in Japan and that unless I spent them in Kyoto I would place my chances of catching my plane in severe jeopardy. Thus I boarded the 23:00 overnight bus from Hiroshima, surrendered Y6020 and at 5:58 the next morning I rolled into town – Kyoto would have to prove itself or be damned. Here is what happened. Kyoto, the cultural centre of Japan, is an ancient town. From shortly after its founding in the 7th century until 1868 Kyoto served as home to the imperial family ...

Hmatt 08.10.2002 · Read full review
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Konichiwa Kyoto

Advantages: It is a fascinating city which presents many of the contrasts of Japan
Disadvantages: This review is very long - but there is so much to Kyoto that I've only given you the main sites

Warning: many of you may want to scan this review, as it is far too long. Kyoto has a great deal to see though... Kyoto gives its name to possibly Japan's most historically and culturally rich prefecture (kyoto-ken), and is contained within the Kansai region. The city itself which was then known as Heian-kyo, was used as the country's capital before Tokyo and shares this privilege with nearby Nara which predates it. Along with Osaka, Nara is also well worth a visit if you are interested in learning a little about Japan's history or seeing many of its most beautiful shrines and temples; many of which are national treasures, UNESCO sites or important cultural properties. The earthquake devastated and recently rebuilt Kobe is also an easy distance (all are reached within half ...

ickkate 27.08.2004 · Read full review
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