英文解釈
和訳お願いします。
Although I thoroughly enjoyed my visits to the different countries I passed through on my way to Japan, I eventually became impatient to reach my destination.I had made up my mind while I was in England that I would live in Kyoto.
There were several reasons for choosing Kyoto, rather than any other city in Japan.
First of all, it had been spared the bombings that destroyed most other Japanese cities.
Secondly, to someone like myself who was interested mainly in classical literature, it was natural to choose the place where most Japanese literature was composed for over a thousand years.
Finally, the only two friends I had in Japan---one Japanese and one American--- were both living in Kyoto.
I arrived in Tokyo one rainy evening in August 1953, and headed directly from the airport to Tokyo Station where I boarded the night train for Kyoto.
I sent a telegram to my Japanese friend, who met me at Kyoto Station and took me to his house, where I was to live for about a month.
My friend expected that I would want to rest the first day after my arrival in Japan, but I was much too excited to rest.
I asked the friend to take me with him wherever he went that day.
As it happened, he had business at the Suntory Whiskey Distillery between Kyoto and Osaka.
My first sightseeing in Kyoto therefore took place not at a famous temple or garden, but at a distillery!
