For many, Kyoto Station is the first thing that you will see when you reach Kyoto. A futuristic, elaborate building, it's the last you'll see of its kind in this city, so enjoy it.
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Advantages: Excellent view of Kyoto, including the Tower! Good change from all the temples... Disadvantages: Sticks out amongst 'traditional' surroundings, shops aren't anything special
For many, Kyoto Station is the first thing that you will see when you reach Kyoto. A futuristic, elaborate building, it's the last you'll see of its kind in this city, so enjoy it. Kyoto Station, in the south area of the city, is the main JR station where you will find the Bullet Train ('shinkansen') and trains out of the city, as well as to other areas within Kyoto.
(Note: If you are here to travel, unless you have a pass, it's well worth checking ... ...a visit though, built opposite Kyoto Tower, which offers a view of the city for a price, you can get just as good a view (and including the Tower too!) for free from the Station. On entering, you will find that the ground floor is dedicated to actual rail travel - buying tickets, etc, but once you head up the escalators on either side, you reach restaurants, a bandstand, and a couple of 'gardens' with sculptures, a bell, etc. Heading up either side ...
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Advantages: Cheap area, gorgeous attractions and temples, good for short visits! Disadvantages: Limited activity so best for -5 day visits.
...I visited Japan at the end of this July, and have only just returned. I must say it was the holiday of a lifetime. Flights cost £900 each via British Airways.
We visited Kyoto for 3 days. We got there via Shinkansen from Tokyo, and stayed at the New Miyako hotel, just over the road from Kyotostation.
Kyoto was absolutely gorgeous and very easy to navigate around. You can get just about anywhere you want to from KyotoStation. There are buses, subway trains etc. 220 yen is all you need for a bus ride to anywhere along the Kyoto bus lines. That works out at around £1. You just hop on the bus and pay when you get off.
We visited Toei movie land which was a bit of a dissapointment. www.eigamura30.com. Looking at brochures we expected amazing movie scenes etc but it left a lot to be desired. A lot of it was shut off, and most...
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Advantages: Location Disadvantages: Lack of character
...I stayed in Kyoto Dai-Ni Tower Hotel, Kyoto, last Christmas with my partner for 2nights. Its one of the Tower Hotel group. Tower Hotel is the main one located in front of Kyotostation, the hotel attract visitor for its tower view around Kyoto and public bath facility. If you stay in one of their hotel you get free ticket to the Kyoto Tower and Discount coupon for bath. Dai-Ni Tower is just around the corner virtually 2min walk from station and Its slightly cheaper than the main one. If you want to stay in Kyoto for a few days and trying to see all the main temples and main tourist place with guided bus tours leaving from KyotoStation this hotel is convenient. Most of the tour leaves pretty early in the morning so you don't want rushing around Kyoto using underground to get back to the main station in morning hour. Even if you decided...
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Advantages: Enormous temples, exciting centre & good wooded walks. Disadvantages: Disappointment if you let the guidebooks build it up too much & expensive.
...all seem a little depressing if no one was buying them and the continual splash of yen upon yen gives this place a bustling charm. Kiyomizu opens early at 6am and is open to 6pm. I walked but the LP suggests buses 206 or 207 from the station.
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The centre piece of this pleasant temple is the Golden Pavilion. Built in 1397, burnt by an obsessed trainee monk in 1950 and rebuilt with more gold than ever before in 1955 this gaudy two storey temple is one of Kyoto’s most lauded tourist sights. The pavilion glows with two floors of gold-foil covering and is set in very pretty gardens of shallow ponds and ancient trees. Get here early in the day to avoid the tour groups and snap a few pictures while the sun is still coming from the east, allowing you to capture a neat reflection in the landscaped pond...
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