16th October 2008
Getting lost in Keage
Day 9
Got up bright and early at 6:30am! Not meeting Helen until 1pm so walked to Kyoto station to visit their tourist information desk and get some info. Walked there (30 mins), got maps and started walking back. Hey, hey guess what - I got lost. Again. How - I don't know, seeing as I'd just walked that way to get to the station. It was crap. Usual thing - my feet were hirting and I didn't know where I was. It took me over 1 hour and 30 mins to get back to the hostel. God knows where I went.
Anyway I met Helen at 1pm and we got a train to Keage to go and see some sort of traditional dancing show that was due on at 2pm at a temple in Keage. She knows less Japanese than me (wow) and we are equally confused by the train/subway system and were quite chuffed when we managed to get to Keage all by ourselves! All we had to do was find the temple the event was at. Needless to say we got lost.
This time it was a good kind of lost though. Ended up walking up a hill, no shrine or temple with traditional dancing but instead a graveyard with a Japanese man burning wood and shouting something at us (even with our almost non-existant knowledge of the Japanese language we got the hint that we were not meant to be up there). So we trecked back down the hill and saw this, ew-
Getting lost in Keage
Day 9
Got up bright and early at 6:30am! Not meeting Helen until 1pm so walked to Kyoto station to visit their tourist information desk and get some info. Walked there (30 mins), got maps and started walking back. Hey, hey guess what - I got lost. Again. How - I don't know, seeing as I'd just walked that way to get to the station. It was crap. Usual thing - my feet were hirting and I didn't know where I was. It took me over 1 hour and 30 mins to get back to the hostel. God knows where I went.
Anyway I met Helen at 1pm and we got a train to Keage to go and see some sort of traditional dancing show that was due on at 2pm at a temple in Keage. She knows less Japanese than me (wow) and we are equally confused by the train/subway system and were quite chuffed when we managed to get to Keage all by ourselves! All we had to do was find the temple the event was at. Needless to say we got lost.This time it was a good kind of lost though. Ended up walking up a hill, no shrine or temple with traditional dancing but instead a graveyard with a Japanese man burning wood and shouting something at us (even with our almost non-existant knowledge of the Japanese language we got the hint that we were not meant to be up there). So we trecked back down the hill and saw this, ew-
We got to a drinks machine and bought a drink each that turned out to be a jelly drink. Weird. Helen and I knew we'd missed the show but weren't that bothered and went trecking up another hill. The scenery was awesome and the pictures don't do it justice.
It was quite random.
After our little adventure we decided to visit the Imperial Palace (see right) in Kyoto, which was nice. It was so chilled and peaceful.
On our way back, we got a train to Shijo station near to our hostel, but apparently there are 2 Shijo stations in the area (i.e. we got lost) and had to walk back to the hostel for quite a bit (feet really hurting now). Ended up walking back through a food market, which was nice!
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