I'm not big on travel and neither are my family but after my Mum expressed her wish to go to Kyoto and with my Dad not being keen having 'been there and done that' on business trips in the past I jumped at the chance of a mother-daughter week away. We booked the trip last year to co-inside with the famous Cherry Blossom season and all too soon it was time to take the cultural plunge into the unknown! (Although we did bring PG tips and prayed to the tea gods that they'd be a kettle in our room).
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We took the 9:30am flight to Frankfurt, the 13:30 to Kansai Airport, Osaka and 11 hours of film binging, lack of leg room, several different time zones, a 2 hour taxi ride with a 'crouch on the floor into a hole in the ground' loo-stop to Kyoto ride later we arrived at Hotel Mystays, Shijo-Dori. We went for a Western style hotel rather than the more traditional Ryokan (futons on the floor, kimono dressed waiting staff) which was a good move and made the trip that little more comfortable!
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