Museum Hopper

One of the first things we saw in Kyoto was the Sento Imperial Palace Gardens . The gardens require that you apply to enter them in advance; we applied about three months in advance providing passport info and location where we are staying.  They only admit a limited number of visitors every day.  We also did one other tour, but the third palace was already at capacity. We had to arrive early for security.  It seemed like most of the visitors at the garden were actually Japanese.  The tour guide provided an in-person Japanese tour guide, whereas we got audio guides in English.  The audio guides were great.  They covered each of the main spots that the tour guide stopped to elaborate on key highlights.   The Sento Imperial Palace is where the crown prince and princess stay when they are in Kyoto.  The tour doesn't enter any buildings, but you cover the full walking garden and see inside some of the tea houses. The garden was...