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Monday in Tokyo, Traveling home
We got a semi-late start, but made sure to hit up Denny's across the street from our hotel for a real breakfast. Orange juice w/ pulp = blech. The only well-known places we had left to visit were Shibuya and Shinjuku, but Shinjuku was the political center, and didn't sound like it had anything too special, so Shibuya it was! Took the subway over ( Read more... ) -
Back Stateside
Back home in Ohio. I have to type up my Monday report, as well as how freaking long of a traveling day this was. But first, I crash for a really long time. G'night! -
Sunday in Tokyo
Sunday in Tokyo ( Read more... ) -
Friday night & Saturday
Friday in Tokyo ( Read more... ) -
On route to Tokyo
Checked out of our Kyoto hotel with leisure, had a nice chat with our taxi driver on the way to Kyoto Eki. Had some confusion when trying to exhcange our vouchers for rail passes, but eventually figured it out. Managed to get a 2pm shinkansen bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo, and also schedule our bullet train from Tokyo to the Kansai Airport for ( Read more... ) -
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Kyoto - Wednesday night, Thursday morning/afternoon:
Recap of morning -- lots of walking around Imperial Palace, Heian Shrine, Kyoto Handicraft Center ( Read more... ) -
Osaka report, Part 2 of 2
The following took place on Monday evening, when we were still in Osaka. Follows this postSo because Summer had to work later in Namba, we strolled over there to look for lunch and fun times. Namba is full of these shotengai, or "shopping arcades"-- pedestrian-only streets with high ceilings (to keep out the rain) and tons of shops, dinky ( Read more... ) -
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Woot, we've arrived in Tokyo. Gonna grab some dinner, hopefully, then I'll be posting a few reports I've been working on. Yay, free internet in our room! :D -
More in Kyoto
Oi, walking day. So, last night we just found some random restaurant on the main Karasuma Street that runs north-south through Kyoto. We're in some rather quiet part of town, a few blocks off Karasuma St., so it's kinda a change from the centrality we had in Osaka. We ate food, came back, and watched Sense & Sensibility on my laptop's DVD player ( Read more... ) -
Here in Kyoto
Well, we stayed a few hours past checkout in Osaka (which the hotel was cool with, just cost an extra $10/hr), and tralled the streets a little bit in Shinsaibashi and America-Mura. Around 1pm we checked out, caught a taxi to the Osaka Train Station (only $11 this time, heh) and somehow managed to get on a local train to Kyoto. The train tix only ( Read more... )