Day 3 Kyoto: Kyoto Railway Museum
The boys in my family loved our visit to the Kyoto Railway Museum, which had so many Singaporeans!
I thought that our visit to the Kyoto Railway Museum, located at Umekoji-Kyotonishi, would be an undiscovered gem.
It turned out to be a gem, but one well-visited by Singaporeans. On Sunday, we saw not one, not two, but five groups of Singaporeans wandering in the museum and some of them were having very geeky train engineering conversations!
The boys in my family were enthused by the huge museum, to put it lightly. The little boy went wild running from interactive exhibit to exhibit, while the older boy (i.e. my partner) often disappeared into driver compartments of all the real retired trains.
Then Pug discovered the museum playground, shaped like a train. We were at the playground when we saw a rainbow and a steam engine with real passengers waving at us. Unfortunately, you need to be at least 120cm for the ride, but Pug just missed it.
Next we checked out of the lovely old machiya and checked into our second apartment hotel, the Glanz Kei Kyoto Station, just three blocks from, you guessed it, Kyoto Station.
Pen actually liked this apartment hotel more than the machiya because it is walking distance to Kyoto Station and right next door to Aeon Mall, which had a massive supermarket, restaurants, a bookstore and a large Uniqlo.
We ended the day having dinner at Ramen Alley on Level 10 of Isetan in Kyoto Station, then shopped for groceries and gifts at Aeon Mall.
The next day, we would take a day trip to Tokyo.
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