On our third day in Hiroshima, we took the Shinkansen, in other words, the Bullet Train, to Kyoto. Kyoto is the town in Japan were you can see a lot of traditional stuff. We saw about 100 people who had dressed up as Geishas. Geishas are people in Japan who are entertainers for men. They don’t ever really actually want to be them. It’s a lot of pain and uncomfortableness for their part. They wear these kimonos that are very fancy! There are  a million different places where people go to where other people dress them up to look like real Geishas.

In Kyoto, I can’t even tell you how many shrines, pagodas, and temples we saw, but I can tell you, it was a lot! Most of the shrines were all orange and were made in 160 something.

Apart from the temples and shrines, we did a lot of other amazing stuff. Every day we walked through the town of Kyoto and ate ice cream. One day we went to a place where there were a bunch of gates you walk through up a mountain. It was so much fun! Another day we we got on a boat and we did a little trip down the river. We went on a few class two and three rapids. It was really fun! After the boat, we walked up to the bamboo forest. It was so cool on the way, we heard a guy playing this instrument called the hand pan.

Yesterday the Stevensons left! I was sooooooo sad to see them go. They were on their way to Tokyo. We then left and walked to our next hotel. We are staying one more night in Kyoto than the Stevensons. Once we got to our hotel we rented bikes and rode along the river for two and a half hours. I am sitting in our room writing this. We are leaving Kyoto to go back to Sapporo this afternoon.

P.S. Most of the pictures I took I used our big camera. Once we get back to Sapporo, I will put those picures in another blog.