Nijō Castle visit continued

We climbed to the top of one of the towers to have a better look around at the castle grounds and the city beyond, perhaps even to see if we could find more fish. We then made our way into the gardens where we needed a bit of a rest and drink. Then the girls really enjoyed walking through the palace gardens. SV really wanted to get some portraits of her, but MV had other ideas. After leaving the palace we got lost in the nearby neighbourhood looking for a place to have lunch. We ended up picking a traditional little restaurant which looked inviting. When we say little, we mean little, it literally had 8 seats and we took up 4 of them. Once we sat down we found out that the speciality of the restaurant was tofu skin, yuba, which is a Kyoto tradition and the passion of the chef. We ended up having a ten course degustation menu made of tofu skin prepared in different ways, including as a soup and a dessert at the end. It was a real interesting and tasty meal with subtle flavours and lots of different textures. We even got to make our own tofu as we waited. The girls liked some of the versions, but some of the options turned out to be just a bit too different for them, they did really well though. The meal ended up taking a bit longer than we initially wanted and so we took a taxi to get home for a rest.