Kyoto: the four days, hour by honest hour

This is the working schedule behind our four-day Kyoto guide — the version with wake-up times and bus numbers, published because readers kept asking for it.

Day one starts at 5:40am. That sounds brutal until you are standing on the Kiyomizu-dera veranda at 6:15 with maybe a dozen other people, watching the city wake up.

Total across four days: $336, of which $164 was the bed. Every line item is in the main guide ledger.