Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Sanjo Nakagyo

... ettei! Käydään vetämässä pienet Karaokesessiot Tokiossa ja tullaan sitten viimeisellä luotijunalla tuhannen örvelöissä takaisin Osakaan. :-) Toimii!

Suunnattiin siis ensimmäiseksi aamulla Shin-Osakan aseman lipputiskille varaamaan sunnuntaiksi meno-paluulippuja Tokioon. Hiukan nosti kylmää hikeä, että miten tästä varaushommasta Japaniksi oikein selviän, mutta ihan mainiosti meni. No problemos. Tai silleen oli kyllä problemos, että olin ihan sulaa vahaa taas n ...

... on varmasti ihan hyödyllisiä aineita jossain muualla, mutta ei minun teessä! :-) Heh, pieni teevitsi tässä sallittakoon?

Matka Kagoshimasta Shin-Osakan asemalle kesti, kolmen vaihdon kera noin 6 tuntia, mutta matka meni varsin viihtyisästi. Koska olin varannut saman hotellin kuin viime kerralla, niin mukavan helppo oli kävellä Shin-Osakan asemalta tuttuja reittejä suoraan hotellin ovesta sisään. Hiukan olin huolestunut, että jos on sama mies ...

... You weren't able to see much from the outside except for the palace wall.

On the way to the palace I learned all about the X-Man ...... yes, the comic book. Jordan is a big fan. In return, I told him all about the original Planet of the Apes movies (all five of them).

Oh, forgot to say that we stopped at Mcdonalds for breakfast and Starbucks for coffee.

We also stopped at the International Manga Museum. Unfortunately ...

... all found it quite hilarious - everyone except for Bridget, anyway! It was back to the train station after our interesting lunch, and then on to Osaka. We had heard that Osaka was the Chicago of Japan, so I was especially eager to get there. By the time we arrived, the sun had set and the rain was still falling heavily, but that didn't stop us from heading out into the city to see what the night would bring. We took the subway into the central shopping district downtown, and ...

En mi tercera noche en Japón descanse como lo haría un verdadero japonés y es que hospedarse en un Ryokan es una experiencia inolvidable y diferente pues dormir en un futon sobre el piso artesanal de tatami, la mesa de te con el agua caliente indispensable para los japoneses, vestirse con un Yucata durante la estadía y disfrutar de una baño de agua caliente en sus famosos baños comunes, hacen de estos hoteles japoneses un sitio que no se puede dejar de visitar ...

... days here. I got a chance to go outside the city and bike along rural roads line with endless farms and mountain views frantically dodging people, pets, cars, buses, and vespas. Made me feel like a true local. Though nearly getting hit by cars several times, biking in and of itself was a real adventure. It is like a video game but more action packed and dangerous with your life instead of quarters on the line. I even have the bruises on my leg and blisters on my hands to prove it.

... for some odd reason my sense of time took a runner (i misread a 24 hour clock - first time i have done this is years and i am horrified at myself!) and i thought that it was a lo later than it really was, so was a little miffed on this walk, thinking that i had missed many temples i had wanted to see.. Realised when getting lunch (a crepe with banana, ice cream, almonds, choc sauce (haha yes, i AM looking after ...

... brany, okolo chramu Shoren-in s vysvietenymi stromami, aj okolo chramu Chion-in s najvacsou branou svojho typu v Japonsku. Prave v sobotu, kedy sme boli v Kyote, sa malo pripominat umrtie Buddhu. Tak by si clovek myslel, ze sa bude vsade slavit, vsetkych chramy budu vysvietene a otvorene dlho do noci. Nakoniec sme boli trochu sklamani. Okrem chramu Chion-in, kde sme prisli uz takmer nakoniec predstavenia (len sme ho poculi spoza plota), nebolo otvorene absolutne ...

... feraient mieux d'aller à l'école, bande de fainéants). Pareil, je suis allé voir une villa, le Ginkakuji, avec un très joli jardin. Mais quand on est des centaines les uns derrière les autres à suivre le sentier, c'est nettement moins agréable. Mais Kyoto est vraiment une très jolie ville avec des belles balades le long des berges du fleuve. Ca doit être très agréable à vivre, surtout que les gens sont cools. Quand tu compares, par ...

... ideas of how to live by way of Tao Te Ching. Tao Te Ching teaches us that by simplifying our lives we will be able to attain a greater sense of happiness. Often we feel the pressures of society telling us how to act, what to wear, and/or how to be. Tao Te Ching says that these things should not rule our lives. Comparing ourselves to others and competition are things that lead us to dissatisfaction and desire. Chapters 8 and 9 teach us how to control our ...