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| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Tokyo is awesome, but Kyoto has got to be the most underwhelming city I've ever visited in Japan. There's absolutely nothing there other than old buildings. Osaka, right next to Kyoto, is a bloody awesome city, but really, the only thing I did in Kyoto was walk down the "Philosopher's Path" because Japan's most famous contemporary philosopher (Kitaro Nishida) used to go there for a stroll. And it takes you from one old temple to yet another bleeding temple.
The highlight was walking past a Hagen-D vending machine that sold what I thought was mint ice cream (being a mint lover), but upon closer inspection turned out to be just damn green tea ice cream.
Green. Tea. Now that's frigging mint!   |
Yea, I have to agree, very underwhelming. Also went there when it was pouring rain and the temples were closed, and it was the first day I got really sick there. My brother is a shitty tour guide too, we wandered around a whole bunch of places, including the fish market, and he'd just stop and be like "uh sooo where do you want to go?" and we were like "wtf, I thought you were taking us someplace!!!"
Their subway system is nice though, and Kyoto Station is very nice as well. I rode on one of the subways with a german family all dressed in lederhosen.
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