We took a taxi from the station to our accommodation to drop off our bags. Kankaso is within a few hundred metres of some of the most popular attraction in Nara including the biggest buddha in Japan at 15m tall and the Nara National Museum only a little further away.
We spent the afternoon wandering around the ??? temple then down through an older area of Nara before making our way back to our ryokan for the evening.
The garden at Kankaso was spectacular and we had booked the premium room of nine with our own beautiful garden right outside our window. From the moment we arrived we were swept away by the immaculate service even though less than a handful of English words were exchanged.
The room had its own private wooden bath and we had a leisurely time relaxing before donning our yakata (house robe) before dinner which was served in our room.
A keiseki dinner was part of the accommodation and we sat down to a veritable onslaught of amazingly presented dishes. It truly was a feast of a lifetime and it seemed almost never ending. It was almost with a sigh of relief that ninety minutes later we swallowed the last tasty mouthful before the tables were cleared and our beds prepared.
