Kyoto

Following our return from the mountain we stopped an an Onsen bath.

It was quite refreshing/relaxing.

I believe the middle one translates as "no smug assholes"

After returning to Tokyo, rechecking into our hotel (same room, just a few floors up) and grabbing some dinner, we slept for the evening and then headed out to check out Tsukiji fish market.

The entrance to the wholesaler's area

People drive motorised carts around with little to no regard for their surroundings.
The disturbing thing is they all have big metal bumpers, that are all dented and banged up.

 The place is absolutely massive.

This is a section containing a handful of stalls

As denoted by the numbered sign above

 There are over 900 stalls all up.

After eating some sushi at the market for lunch we started about the main business of the day, which was to catch the bullet train to Kyoto.

Nozomi N700

Attempting to take a photo at 300km/h

an equal opportunity hotel

We headed out and went to the top of Kyoto tower to view the city.

There are a number of telescopes at the top of the tower.

We also spied this odd glowing band of lights.

After watching the sun set, we headed off to grab dinner and see if we could find the band of lights.

The lights turned out to be a staircase in the train station.

Reverse view from the stairs to the tower.

 After which we grabbed dinner from the food court at the train station (probably the second best sushi on the trip) and turned in for the night.