Day trips

 I also took a few day trips on the weekends while I was working in Kyoto

I went to Osaka and checked out the TeamLabs exhibit at the botanical gardens. 

I went out to Nara to see the deer.

I'll link to both of those in the next post.

I also went to Keage incline, a disused railway track that is now a popular viewing spot for Cherry Blossoms.

There was a coffee festival near the zoo

I find the concept of going to a place to try up to 15 different coffee shop's coffee a bit weird

but Story was there, so I went and said hello

but mostly I just wanted to go to the zoo

A very ugly bird

There was a fairly lame special exhibit. 5 rabbits and a donkey (called a rabbit horse in Japanese).
It's the year of the rabbit though, so what ya gonna do?

The tiger enclosure seemed a bit bare

but he can go up into the top here

and get into a Tiger sized cat run that goes all around the big cate area.

A raccoon dog

the fountain out the front of the zoo

The zoo is also surrounded by a moat, presumably in case the tiger gets out.

I also go shown around Kyoto University

There's a museum about the history of the University

various awards that used to be given out

Protestors took over the clock tower in the 60s

A re-creation of an old student dorm

A miniature scale diorama of the University

The clock tower lit up at night

A historical part of Kyoto in the evening