Last night I went along with friends to dinner at the Gozanbou teppanyaki restaurant on the top floor of the Kyoto Granvia Hotel. I was gobsmacked at the high quality of the food, the surroundings, and, indeed, the entire experience. What a treat! The evening started with garlic, and lots of it. Frankly, I think [...]
The 2009 Annual Conference for FIRST is going to be held this year in Kyoto, Japan from 28 June-3 July. Owing to the fact that I live literally just down the road from Kyoto, I thought I would share some travel tips in a series of short articles that might help make arriving at and [...]
Welcome to Kyoto What city hosts the headquarters of Nintendo and has the second largest train station in Japan? Why, that’d be Kyoto! I guess the more popular things for which people know Kyoto are the myriad of historically significant locations, including the 17 locations in and around Kyoto that have been designated as a [...]
Welcome to Japan Unless you already live in Japan, the first step in getting to Kyoto is, of course, making landing at a port of entry and then traveling onward to the final destination. Kyoto’s situated in the center part of the largest island of Japan, about 100 km north of Osaka; Kyoto itself is [...]
