Day 5: Choose Your Own Adventure We had been exploring Kyoto for about two days, so we decided this morning was a bit of a choose your own adventure depending on what parts of the city each person wanted to see more of. Chatting with Laura and John we decided since we were so close…

Day 4: Full Day Kyoto Good morning! Today we woke up around 6am to get going and beat some of the crowds to the touristy areas of Kyoto. We ended up leaving around the Airbnb around 6:30am and attempted to go to a breakfast place Nick had found. We showed up, but were turned away…

Day 3: Off to Kyoto Today we woke up a bit later than day before as we finally had adjusted to the time zone and had full bellies to sleep off.  Ashley & John went for a run while the rest of us went to explore the nearby gardens. We walked through the first one…

Day 2: No Sleep, Only Walking Well it turns out most of us were officially jet-legged as we all woke up between 3:30-4:30AM. I personally woke up around 3:30AM and could not fall back asleep, so around 4:15, I decided to just get going with the day. Claire (Roomate from Colorado) was also in Tokyo …