It's also worth noting that the first Inbachi-ALL in an arcade was actually achieved in a-cho, so I got to play on the same cabinet where this happened!
Anyway, after proving my incompetence in arcade games, we moved on to our final destination we had planned for the day: Kyoto Gyoen National Garden. It simply took a trip up the Karasuma subway line.
The National Garden is massive, housing two imperial palaces among other things. We spotted a heron at the pond in the southeast, near the government buildings. There was also a cute little stream called Demizu-no-Ogawa (出水の小川). The ground was all gravel though.