Kyoto to Kanzai

After breakfast we packed up our bags for the last time, and left them in the luggage room. We bought day tickets for the buses again, and headed off to the Steam Locomotive Museum - as you do when all 'templed out'.


It is located at a beaut 20-bay roundhouse, with turntable, and there are about 15 locomotives. They also have a display inside a relocated station building, but most of the info is in Japanese.

The train came in soon after we arrived,

and discharged its load of kindergarten kids, and we hopped on. It was a very short train ride, but having paid our money we did it anyway.

Then we looked at the locomotives in the roundhouse


while the kids had lunch - each on their own mat, having taken off their shoes.

We caught a bus back to the city station, and had a small lunch, then caught a bus (have to make the most of our tickets) to the Imperial Palace, and walked through the gardens.
Then it was time to retrieve our luggage, and catch our last train to Kanzai airport.
We have checked in, and discovered that they have free WIFI. Now it is 19:00 we will go and find some dinner. Boarding is at 20:45.

This is just about the end, but I will add a bit more when we get home, and include some of our general impressions of the trip.