Wisetrips Travel Blog

While staying at our Mitsui Garden Hotel in Kyoto, we decided to venture to nearby Osaka. Osaka is known for its fantastic restaurants and is considered Japan's culinary capital. On arriving at Osaka Station by train from Kyoto, our first stop was the Kuromon Market . This was a large outdoor market with roofs (to protect from rain). Like the Kyoto market, Kuromon had an enormous variety…

We arrived at Kyoto Station from Kanazawa (our last major stop on our two-week tour of Japan). We removed our luggage from the train and headed to the Kyoto subway station to get closer to our Mitsui Garden Hotel . The hotel was near our subway stop at Karasuma Oike Station. I was relieved that my Pasmo  travel card still worked in the subway! Since we arrived too early for regular check-in (usually at 15:00 or l…