The antidote to this???? Retail therapy. We hit the Kyoto craft centre where there are 5 floors of Japanese stuff to to purchase and bring home. This varies from the extremely tacky plastic dolls and fake samuri swords to £400 lacquered boxes and watercolours. There was some reasonable stuff there. I dont expect it was the cheapest but it allowed us to buy souveniers and small gifts for friends (Hello Kitty anyone?)
This evening we hit Kyoto station for dinner. Now you would expect to go to a station for a meal but Kyoto station embodied everything you imagine about modern Japan. It is a landmark building with 11 floors of Shopping, Hotels and Resturants build around a huge open atrium. Its quite a sight looking acros the open space and seeing the opposite escalators rising 12 floors to the roof garden.
We found a lovely little resturant that specialised in Meat or Prawns in batter served with shredded cabbage, rice, meso soup and pickles. This particular resturant also added a bowl of sesame seeds that you ground and mixed with the special sauce which you then dipped you meat or prawn in. Fantastic. Anita became the first of us to sample Saki, she's still upright but a little wobbly.
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