After our last stay in Kyoto we made the decision that we definitely had to return on our way back to Tokyo. The city has so much to see and is a firm favourite from our travels so far. Coming back allowed us to explore some more of its many temples and shrines as well as having a proper chance to hit the town and check out the city's night life centre.
We decided to stay at Tomato Hostel again due to its close proximity to the train station. It's a very basic hostel and certainly not the best we've stayed at but luckily we met a good group of people here and had a great couple of days here despite rainy weather.
Ivan, Tomas, Shad, Katrina and Patrick at Tomato Hostel, Kyoto
Out on the town we found a cool little music bar called Club Ghost. You can go in here and if you're a musician, pretty much help yourself to the instruments on stage and rock out. We met some really cool Japanese people here; Ryuichi who plays in a band and the staff Jackie and Akie. Ryuichi and I had a bit of a jam on the guitars before he treated us to some of his songs in Japanese which were very impressive.
For more photos from Kyoto click here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/globefest/sets/72157623881200134/
So saying goodbye to Kyoto we returned to the mega city of Tokyo for our last couple of nights in Japan. We stayed again in Asakusa but this time in a different hostel. On the Sunday before leaving we headed to Harajuku Park which is famous for locals in crazy fashion and 60's style dancers. Along with these we also saw a number of strange sights including an old Japanese man dressed completely in Nazi uniform (rather disturbing!).
Just some of the weird examples of Harajuku fashion, Tokyo
Its a shame to say goodbye to Japan, the two weeks here completely flew past. The people are so friendly, the cities so clean and the 24/7 culture is highly addictive. The only thing I know is that I already want to come back! So long for now Nippon.
Our photos from Tokyo can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/globefest/sets/72157623756716811/
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