More fabulous randomness

Here is another mish-mash of sightings in Kyoto

 These shops are pretty frequent and new since my last visit here. For a mere 3000 yen, they will dress you up in kimono so you can walk around the temples... there were TONS of young Japanese girls doing this, but since we saw no other Caucasians, we wimped out. Couldn't imagine wearing anything other than sneakers here, either!

 Lost in a bowl of Udon...

 Thousand cranes at small shrine

a Kimono department store along the Ginza

 Becky as geisha

Real, live Meiko doing a dance at sunset

Notice all the iPhones recording... 

Finally, a beer vending machine! It took almost the whole trip to find one (apparently they have mostly been eliminated here due to abuse....)