Although I am sitting in my hotel lounge writing this, I have been thinking about what to include for my blog posts for a while! Kyoto started out kind of stressful, as I was not expecting the volume of tourists we saw. I would have liked to go down the shopping streets by Kiyomizu-dera again, but I didn’t have the time. Some of my favorite things were visiting ryoanji rock garden, going to the Nintendo store/Pokemon center and our visit to Nara. I had been hearing about all of the architecture in Kyoto for a while, and it was really cool to see it all in person!