"Takayama to Kyoto" Timefortea's photos around Kyoto, Japan

A TripAdvisorâ„¢ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Kyoto, Japan by TravelPod blogger Timefortea titled "Takayama to Kyoto" Timefortea's travel blog entry: "An early start today to catch the train. I guess we should have realised something was up with the train network when the station manager started to get shirty with one of our party for being on the station platform too early (???)- normally staff are the epitome of polite customer service. The train we eventually caught set off on time, but was very, very, very slow- due to the extremely swollen rivers, I think. In fact, it was so delayed that we actually missed our connecting train, something highly unusual in transport-efficient Japan. Still, it all got sorted out, we arrived in Kyoto eventually, and wow, the architecture of the train station really is astonishing. To some extent you could argue that it's just another steel-and-glass job, but it's on such a massive scale it's a little hard to get your head around. Escalators soar up into the huge atrium ceiling, and what seems to be an entire shopping mall, plus a massive 15-story department store, hotel, visitor centre and cinema are housed under the same roof. And did I mention the huge range of restaurants on the top floor? Ramen noodles ahoy... Our luck was clearly in because the rain finally cleared, and we saw sunshine fo rthe first time since arriving in Japan. Having aquired our bus passes for the next few days, Alec and I visited the Ginkakuji (Silver ...