On our last day in Tokyo we went down to the Odaiba area. Great idea! Odaiba is basically Tokyo’s giant amusement park. In contrast to some of the narrow streets back in town, Odaiba is expansive, and has well-designed everything.
Welcome back to the snow…uh, show. Our heroes had found themselves in beautiful bamboo groves, Zen gardens and temples in Arashiyama (lit. stormy mountain), on the west side of Kyoto. This was an entirely sensible situation for a pair of tourists to find themselves in.
What would have been even more sensible is if I had worn sensible shoes. Sneakers are not for prolonged walking, even if these ones had recycled car-tyre soles. Furthermore they had become highly soggy from the previous day’s snow.
My patience has run out with technology and screaming babies in the lounge this evening, so I’m going to write a quick one with the photos I have and then go have a bath, in silence 
This is where we checked out from the hotel in Higashiyama, went downtown again, returned to get our bags, then caught the train over to Arashiyama (on the other side of the city), and awoke the next day to go walking for kilometres around bamboo groves, temples and shrines in the snow. With me wearing my snow-soaked sneakers. That was fun :<