Gion

Once we were done in Eastern Gion, we decided to walk to our hotel. It didn’t seem like it would be too far, but it turns out that it was. On top of that, we had not eaten a proper meal since the morning, so we were also looking for a good place to stop and eat for the evening.

I am particularly fond of a dish called gyudon. It is basically a bowl of rice with beef on top, and I usually get it at Yoshinoya. Paola thinks that the meat tastes like it is either raw or fat, so she doesn’t like it at all. However, after dragging Paola to Yoshinoya, she finally found a dish that she likes. We figured that Yoshinoya was a decent choice, especially since it is cheap.

Instead, right across the street from the Yoshinoya, we went to a sushi place. There are a lot of sushi places in Japan that are really cheap. What they do is make sushi (a cube of rice topped with a piece of raw fish), set it on a plate, and put it on a converyor belt. The conveyor belt then goes around, which either a bar is set around, or all the booths for families are set around, and you pick up whatever you see and want to eat. When you are ready to leave, they then count all the empty plates, and add up the bill. You pay on your way out. This was good because the sushi is usually cheap, and you eat until you get full, so you know you are getting your money’s worth.

We then walked to our hotel, which was easy enough to find, and called it a night.