Pauline was keen to get our northern hemisphere flu vaccinations so we took an uber to an English speaking clinic where we’d made an appointment and got jabbed.
We got an uber back to the railway station and headed off on a local train to Arashiyama for the bamboo forest and hopefully the monkey park also. There were a lot of tourists at Arashiyama, mostly Japanese and a lot of them dressed up in traditional Japanese clothes which you could hire there.
After the bamboo forest we walked to the monkey park, this was quite a steep climb but it was great to get some exercise in the countryside and the view was spectacular, to say nothing of the monkeys!
This was quite a big day, but we returned to the hotel extremely satisfied with our efforts, and had pizza for dinner at the hotel restaurant which, oddly, was Italian. Next day, off to Okayama!
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