Koe Donuts

After dinner, we walked around Kyoto-kawaramachi area and came across Koe Donuts.

As you can see form this picture, the place was pretty empty by this time and many of the donuts were already sold out.

We saw that there were still quite a number of people inside enjoying their meals and they were still accepting orders, so we decided to dine in.

The interior is interesting thanks to these baskets that are hanging from the ceiling.

Simple but stylish.

The inside is spacious and there are many seats. We went to this big shared table in the middle, that was empty at that time.

The blue tag that I am wearing if not a name tag, but a tag that was supposed to help clean the air of viruses. I wasn't sure if it would work but I thought that I'd give them a try as they were available in the drug stores. At a time when masks were no where to be found, I spotted it in the drugstore and we decided to buy one each, just to test them out. Obviously, we still have no idea if it actually works.

We ordered the white cheese donut which was yummy! Love the light cream cheese on the donut.

During this trip, we were in our masks most of the time, except for when we are eating or when we wanted to take pictures when there are less people around us.

After that, we continued exploring around the area and eventually came across the Kyoto Minami-za.

Next up is the Yasaka Shrine.

Even though it was late, the gound was still open and we were able to enter to have a look around.

While borders to China have closed at this time, but the borders are still open to other countries so Kyoto wasn't without tourists during this time.