Early morning, Lazy day

We get up at about 7.30 for the 8 oclock kicking out and clear our stuff away before heading to tourist information to get them to book us a place to stay for the next few nights. Why do it yourself if someone else is quicker and better at it than you?!

They have us a place in no time a bit out of the way in the north of Kyoto. The Aoi-so Inn
We get there in the early afternoon and get checked in the guy who runs the place is a nice little old Japanese man. I find out later that it does good to be small in this place, I bang my head on door frames about three times a day.
He tells us a bit about the area and some of the stuff that is going on whike we are there and a couple of the things we went to so thanks that man! (cant remember his name! :P)

This place is BUDGET though! Its cheap but you have to pay for everything else. Internet: 100yen for 10 Minutes; Cooking Gas 50yen for 20 minutes; Air con in the room: 100yen for a couple of hours; Hot water in the shower: 100yen for 15 minutes.
Bummer.

We head out and go to the Kyoto International Manga Museum, I like manga, did you get that? The museum is based inside this old school building and in parts of it you can really tell it used to be a school; wide corridoors and doors, big class rooms still with the chalk boards, in some rooms they have displays showing pictures and textbooks from the original school bus for the most part the corridoors and rooms are now lined with manga books. Thousands of them. And on seats that are dotted about randomly there are people reading them, lots of them. Some people are just sat on the floor reading, some are lying down, some have coffee or tea, but everyone is here to read manga. I am also here to see the manga but I cant read it because ITS ALL IN JAPANESE! gutted. Still cool to see all those manga lining the walls though. As far as the museum part goes, there is not much to tell, a couple of rooms explain the french roots of comic art passing to Japan and changing to a very quick turn out of cheaply, quickly made comics for entertainment but thats about it.

We leave here and take a stroll around the Kyoto Imperial Gardens.

In the middle is a huge wall that encloses the Imperial Palace which you need special permission to go inside. Around this wall a few dozen school kids are running laps, they can go a hell of a lot further than I could!

We have a look around the park for a while then go back to the Aoi-so.