In Kyoto we stayed at a hostel which was very different to hostels in south america. In Japan they are very private, so each bed has his own view block and there is a common area, but the people don't talk much or drink together. If you want that you have to pursuade them. And the other point is that the hostel is of course very clean and everybody is very considerate. That is a common theme in Japan, for example on the trains there are signs and announcements that you should not talk on the phone.
Kyoto is different than Tokyo in a way, it has an older and more original feeling with a lot of old buildings and temples. We visited a lot of temples, some small and some are huge areas with a lot of buildings. We adjusted the yellow car game and hit each other on the shoulder when we saw a temple or shrine. There really are a lot of them. One of Max favorite things we did was the botanical garden, which was beautiful despite most flowers not blouming (beginning of march) but thanks to the climate change we could already see some sakuras (cherry blossoms). They were one month earlyer than they should be. The also had a lot of bonsaiss and a tropical area. The manga museum was also pretty nice with manga ranging from 1930ties till today, and explanations about the industry. Sadly, most mangas were in Japanese so we couldn't read them. We ate a lot of udon which are Paulas new favorite kind of noodles and Max had the best curry he ever ate. And also visited the bamboo forest. Together with another German women we visited the imperial palace and a big castle which was pretty nice. It is kind of contradicting how the people life on so small spaces and then have this huge areas around their historical buildings but it's very nice to have a park in all that city jungle. Paula bought herself a kimono in an second hand store, after seeing so many people wearing them on the street. We wanted to go to a japanese hot spring, but Paula got sick so we couln't go. We found out that our flight to the Phillipeans was from Osaka, so we decided to spend our last few days in Japan there.
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