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Kyoto is Crowded

Let’s start with dinner last night in Kanazawa. We hit the Taito arcade afterwards and played some more drum game!  They didn’t have Flip the table game.  


We played a new game that resembles my favorite coin game at Dave and Busters where you have to knock the coins off the ledge.  Only with this game, you had to knock candy off the ledge and after about $10 we scored this booty:






Eric claims the ones above were gum but I thought they were marshmallows so I swallowed them. 

At noon we arrived in Kyoto and munched on squid, scallops, crab and chestnut mochi at Nishiki Market.  Even though we have been to about 4 markets already, this one was still different and fascinating. Lots of “no photo” signs though. 

Then we went to Tofuku-ji Buddhist temple


Then the famous Fushimi Inari Shrine with the famous orange gates you see in every pic of Kyoto.  What you don’t see in every pic is the massive crowd there.  And of course everyone is trying to take a picture which is even more annoying. 










Tonight is fancy tempura (not the cheap gross American tempura 

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