Once Upon a Time in Japan: Osaka to Kyoto to Fukui
Last night, we decided to get up early and take an early train to Kyoto around 7 so we could do a bit of site seeing before we hop the bus to Fukui. I set the alarm for about 615. I woke up at like 530am because of the dramatic change in times and because the train outside the window was making a slight noise as it went over the trax. Nothing majorly bad, just that i was sleeping lightly and it produced a slight rythm that woke me up. The room, by the way was small. The toilet was amazing...i mentioned that already though.
We met and had some japanese breakfast. It was good. We paid and took off to the train station. We then waited about 20 minutes or so at the train station waiting for a train to Kyoto. Gary kept leading us back and forth across the platform looking for the correct car cue. it was funny. In the end, we ended up where we started at. But when the train came, we had to run to grab it because it stop on the other side of the stairs. The stations here are big. We must have been cued up in a different train line.
Gary was also playing with his cellfone. He rented one from the internet that you can use internationally. Pretty kool deal. Akari had called him. He allowed me to use it later in the day to call my contacts here in Japanland.
When we got to Kyoto, we dropped our bags off into some lockers and then walked around the city. Our primary objective was the Kiyomuzi Ji, a giant buddhist temple on the outskirts of the city.