There was a special exhibition of ??? treasures so we bit the bullet and paid an extra 500 yen on top of the normal 500 yen admission to see what was on offer. Although it was probably of great cultural and historical significance to the large crowd of Japanese shuffling along with us, it was rather dull for us after the first few examples since we had no context and the exhibits were not particularly aesthetically exciting. The normal museum display was certainly very interesting.
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We collected our luggage from Kankaso and headed to the train station by taxi. Half an hour later we were in Kyoto station and due to the prevailing rain, we decided not to spend half of the day continuing on to Himeji to see the largest castle in Japan.
After dropping off our luggage at at the Kyoto Travellers Inn we walked into the town centre to check out the huge covered shopping area and grab a bite to eat at a great bar I found when I was in Japan last year.
