July 12, Kyoto, Nara

Today, caught the Shinkansen-bullet train from Tokyo Station to Kyoto Station. We boarded the 9:50am tain and arrived in Kyoto around 12:26pm, in just over 2 1/2 hours one way. We were picked up as our tour group, JTB tours. Our tour guide lead us to New Miyako hotel for a lunch, as provided by JTB tours, the food was quite good. Then afterwards, the tour picked us up and some other people from various hotels to the Afternoon Nara tour. We saw the tame yet feisty deer at Nara park, which is about less than 40 minutes from Kyoto station. The deer are very calm, but if you feed them crackers, ( you can buy some for 100 yen to feed the deer), they will surround you in numbers, so be aware...lol

The weather conditions were not very optimal, as it was light winds with light rain most of th day. The tour to Nara was quite nice, as we visited a few big large temples and the Nara park which supposively holds the 2000 deer. Later we checked back in the hotel after the afternoon tour ended. The hotel we stayed at was about a 10 to 15 min taxi drive from the Kyoto Station, at the Miyako Westin Kyoto Hotel, which is a nice hotel.