Yikes, I was happy we weren't in a building for the largest of the earthquakes. We didn't get the eathquake alert until we were already hunkered down in a safe spot, but the chimes and announcements that happened a ways into it really startled us.

When we eventually got back to our room at HH we found the toiletries scattered about the shower room, so the building must have taken a good shaking. Thankfully we were only on the 5th floor, but I felt so many aftershocks during the night and it was very unsettling. It was reassuring that both HH and Centric were new construction.

Back to Park Hyatt Kyoto, arriving there and being in a lower building, in addition to it being new construction, was a huge relief after Kanazawa.

We ate a number of meals at the Bistro there, including the night of our arrival, and enjoyed every one of them. We did ala carte breakfast a (or from) the Bistro every day of our stay, it was very convenient and quite affordable. It would have been nice to be Globalist for the buffet, but we found the french toast with carmelized bananas, and strawberries and blueberries to be the perfect amount of food, and in the end I felt like the buffet would have probably been too much.

I will note that they tried to turn us away from the Bistro the second morning we were there. I had inquired the day before about whether reservations were necessary (we did in-room dining the first morning), and was assured they were not required for breakfast. When we walked into the restaurant the next morning, we were told they were not serving despite it still being well within breakfast hours. I waited until another employee was available and asked again and we were eventually shown to a table. I'm not sure if it was our casual dress or what caused the first person to try to turn us away, but it was the only time that happened, thankfully. I hated potentially appearing troublesome, but I wanted breakfast before we headed out for the day and had no idea where to get anything else at that time of the morning.