Day 8 – Kyoto to Fukuoka

Due to the impending bank holiday, accommodation in Kyoto is harder to find than drugs at a Billy Graham sermon so I decide to head south and return in a week's time.

I spend the morning looking around a couple of the city's smaller temples and take the obligatory tour up the observation tower which in the high winds was swaying around as if Billy Graham had shown it the light.

I visit an underground food hall where myriad hawkers are offing free samples of there wares, always up for a challenge I try some delicious and wholly indescribable sweets, vegetables and fish dishes as well as putting some things in my mouth that frankly would make a veteran porn start to gag.

I load up on Wasabi peas and a couple of cans of Suntory Grapefruit Strong (a surprisingly refreshing brew) for the train journey to Fukuoka.