Coffee, a quick dinner and Izakaya row

First coffee. We have realized that we must keep going back to Ko-Hi-Kan because the coffee is that good. Here is Chris trying to get a photo of the cream curling up in side the cup. Only after I left did Chris find out that we could get refills for half price! Dang! 

And now for a few selfies. This was the one and only time Christopher would agree to the selfi stick. We could not use it in public! Too rude, according to him, although I saw plenty of people using them! 

And just so you think I don't post only the good selfies, here is one gone terribly wrong! It looks ghastly! Do I really look like this!?? Gasp! I look like I am lying in my coffin, in fact I would look better in a coffin than in this shot.

 Then...out to dinner at a "fast food" restaurant, much like Yoshinowa where we ate in Tokyo. Pretty healthy fast food. You order it and they bring it right away. Maybe some of it is pre-made! But it's also pretty damn cheap. Under 1000 for both of us to eat. (Chris, please fill in the name of this place:______)

Kyoto Station tower, which is part of a hotel. 

Not far from the station is this row of izakayas. (Japanese pubs). It was a Friday night so we encountered a lot of rowdy customers! The places are really small. They might hold just five or six customers tops.  You can peek in behind the curtain and if they have room, you can come in. They are expensive too, with a cover fee on top of the drinks you order. We decided to come back again another night and have some plum wine and treat ourselves. I noticed the drains... maybe they just hose down the row after a particularly raucous group? 

The windows are frosted, maybe to shield the patrons from prying eyes.

This is the back end of it. Chris says it is well known to locals. 

Along with a few lanterns.... 

We saw this interesting window as we walked back home. 

Once at Chris' dorm we went on a little walk down a street filled with old buildings, ryokans and even a bath house, where you could do a hot soak for 400 yen. 

I took this mood shot of a seemingly vacant building. Noting that Kyoto has the largest concentration of pre-war buildings in Japan, it wasn't a surprise to see so many. It's just that a lot seemed vacant. Some of them were really big too!