Japan Day 6: Philosopher's Walk & Back to Tokyo

Ok, this one has to be very short because I have to wake up in four hours to see the auction at the Tsukiji fish market.

The short story is that Jonathan and I split off from the others (who were headed to see the Giant Buddha at Nara) in order to walk the Philsopher's Walk in Kyoto, a pleasant stroll along an old canal.

From there we continued walking into the shopping district, had some more Pastel pudding (strawberry this time), and had lunch at an izakaya place. The funny thing is that the proprietor was convinced Jon and I were Japanese, and spoke at us for a full minute or so, until she noticed how unresponsive we were, and then promptly brought out the English menus. This was so amusing to our tablemates at the bar, that they whipped out their phones and snapped pictures of us.

From there we headed back to the hostel, wrote some postcards out, and then headed back out to Tokyo. We were pretty tired at this point, but of course we couldn't stop moving. We headed back out to Shinjuku to do some shopping, visited the observation deck at the Tokyo Metropolitan Building, which boasts a full panoramic view of the city, and then had some dinner.

Now I'm going to take a nap, see some dead fish, and then have some incredible sushi for breakfast.