You call this romance?

By The Backpacker
Updated September 2 2014 - 5:13pm, first published 12:58pm
A take away food store in Kyoto. Photo: Nicolas Walker
A take away food store in Kyoto. Photo: Nicolas Walker
The Nishiki street market.
The Nishiki street market.

Romance doesn't usually come with a wake-up call. But there it is, buzzing away with Japanese precision, shaking us from our slumber. Breakfast. We both groan. Romance doesn't usually mean sleeping on the floor either. But here we are, choosing to share a single mattress just a few centimetres above the tatami-matted ground, snuggled under a doona fit for a very cold king.

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