3 days in kyoto 2025: tea ceremony, matcha cafe hopping 🍵, ryokan experience 🏯 & sukiyaki 🥩

welcome to the kyoto vlog (2025)! (this is a trip Xavier and I took in January 2025) on this leg of the trip, we went from Hakone to Kyoto to spend three nights at a ryokan (SEIKORO ryokan). it was our first time experiencing a ryokan, and we could not have been happier. we had sukiyaki for the first time and fell instantly in love.... so much so that the next day we had some more for lunch before leaving kyoto 🤤 we then took the Shinkansen back to Tokyo for two nights before embarking on our flight for the next leg of the asia tour: Seoul, South Korea. special appearance of our friends: eva & justin 💕 ======================================================== restaurants/cafes/shops: 📍Vermillion cafe (6:15) 5-31 Fukakusa Kaidoguchicho, Fushimi Ward, Kyoto, 612-0805, Japan 📍matcha roastery (6:30) Myoraku-146 Uji, Kyoto 611-0021, Japan 📍matcha republic (6:54) Myoraku-26-2 Uji, Kyoto 611-0021, Japan 📍tsuji rihei honten (7:14) 41 Ujiwakamori, Uji city, Kyoto 611-0021 📍bunnosuke chaya (8:07) 373 Yasaka Kamimachi, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto, 605-0827, Japan 📍maccha house (8:29) 3 Chome-337 Kiyomizu, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto, 605-0862, Japan 📍otowa saryo (14:21) 1 Chome-287-1 Kiyomizu, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto, 605-0862, Japan 📍tsukiji sushiiwa (21:00) Narita Airport Terminal 1 ======================================================== destinations/experiences: 📍nishiki market (0:59) 📍maiko-ya kimono & tea ceremony (1:57) 329, Ebiyacho, Gokomachidori Sanjo sagaru, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan 📍fushimi-inari (5:19) 📍kiyomizu-dera (22:01) 📍Tokyo Disneyland (18:36) ======================================================== hotels: 📍SEIKORO ryokan (kyoto) Japan, 〒605-0907 Kyoto, Higashiyama Ward, Nishitachibanacho, 467-2 三丁目西橘町４６７ 📍Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel (tokyo) (17:12) 26-1 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-8512, Japan ======================================================== Chapters: (00:00) Intro (0:21) day 7: heading to nishiki market 🍡 (1:57) maiko-ya kimono & tea experience 🍵 (5:09) day 8: fushimi-inari ⛩️ (6:22) kyoto to uji 🚊 (8:03) uji to kyoto 🚊 (9:58) sukiyaki dinner at SEIKORO ryokan 🥩 (13:02) day 9: kiyomizu-dera 🏯 (16:03) kyoto to tokyo 🚅 (17:21) shibuya 🏙️ (18:36) day 10: tokyo disneyland 🪄 (20:27) day 11: narita airport ✈️ ======================================================== my socials: instagram: pharmafitness247 | pharmafittravels tiktok: pharmafitness247 twitch: pharmafit ======================================================== our 2025 asia trip Part 1: tokyo | jan12 Part 2: tokyo | jan 13 Part 3: tokyo/hakone | jan 14 to jan 17 Part 4 (this video): kyoto/tokyo | jan18 to jan22