Japan

Lesley and Caroline were lucky enough to be invited to attend a conference in Japan by colleagues. They flew from Heathrow to Tokyo Haneda airport, taking a bullet train to Kyoto on September 1st. After a week in Kyoto with colleagues from Japan and business associates from the USA, they travelled back to Tokyo - narrowly avoiding a major typhoon.

Sunday walk

It was so hot that people were bathing in the river
Stepping stones

Some stepping stones shaped like turtles
Caroline overheated
Craft centre

Buying a few souvenirs in Kyoto Craft Centre and finding free origami... not easy to inflate something so small
Origami cranes
Zenkashoin

A very old cake shop near our hotel "returning flowers and confectionery to their authentic state'
Cake display

Cake shop - gallery like
Sweet potato cake

There were many beautiful seasonal autumn cakes and cookies
So expenisve

About £50 for a whole one
DIY tea

The cake shop was too busy with 12 people waiting ahead of us, so we brought some back to our hotel
Cake

Chestnut cake, matcha cookies
Shared kitched

reat idea by Share Hotel Rakura to have a cool shared kitchen for guests
Appetiser

We went back to the same neighbourhood restaurant - unfortunately it was the same appetiser as yesterday. Not sure what it was - v…
More sushi

and delicious cucumber pickle
Tuna salad

Amazing tuna salad - and more shashimi
Monday breakfast

era style - here's the egg mayo with a salad and half a banana So healthy and actually delicious
Delays

We spent the morning shopping in Kyoto station while waiting for the typhoon to pass. It's a huge station with a lot of large shop…
Department store

The huge department store inside Kyoto JR station has an escalator leading as far as the eye can see
Looking for lunch

Food shopping in Kyoto station
Train-snack

Went shopping for lunch in Kyoto station, after booking our train to Tokyo
A moveable feast

Fast moving bullet train - I had to try to sharpen this image