Our original plan was to stay in Kyoto, unfortunately, since it was cherry blossom season and we booked quite late, everything was completely full. Luckily, Kyoto is only 30 minutes from Osaka by train, so we still managed to spend two full days there.
Kyoto was our favourite city in Japan. It has so many cute streets, temples, yummy restaurants, and it happened to be particularly beautiful with blooming cherry trees. We spent our 2 days there wandering as many streets as we could, and really enjoyed everything we saw.
Kyoto has thousands of temples and shrines scattered through the city. We certainly weren't going to have time to visit them all, so we mainly hit whichever random interesting-looking ones that we happened to pass by :) There are SO many of them!!
We did make an effort to visit one of the more famous temples, Kiyomizu-dera which sits on the side of a hill overlooking Kyoto.
There were many Japanese people dressed up in traditional garment, having their photos taken.
We also visited the Bamboo Forest on the outskirts of town.
Oh, and let's not forget... the Ninja Store :) :) Yep we found one, so of course we had to go!!
