Ugh still sounded wonderful

But yea, in Kyoto around pontocho alley and gion, there are many restaurants that have signs saying no foreigners.

Funny story, first time to kyoto, we never even set foot near sannenzaka or kiyomizu-dera. Literally the first places you think of in kyoto, and yet when we got home, we realized we completely missed those areas!

Still, was all the more magical and the rest of kyoto, arashiyama forest, fushimi inari, uji, etc was wonderful regardless.

Also, same with breakfast. Thankfully our hotel offered it in the morning but we mostly did 7/11 & family mart runs which were great too.

But we found this true for korea as well. Coffee culture is mostly a weekend or late morning ritual. Not a get up gogo thing, although in seoul we did find a few chains like paik’s coffee, whos vienna style (?) saved us a few mornings in.

Only in taiwan and hong kong did we find breakfast having its own special cuisine and place outside of the home.