our day to go and explore a bit of kumamoto… since david had work, michelle and i partially planned to go to kumamoto castle and suizenji park. after waking up, at around 10-ish, and even hearing some roosters crowing, dave left us a cellphone that we could use to get in touch with him while […]
shuupatsu! it’s our day of travel. woke up at 6am, and almost quietly grabbed our crap and left the hostel around 630-45. we were supposed to tell them if we were planning to leave before 8 but… we forgot so we just left a note 😛 at kyoto, i stopped to look at the boarding […]
our last day in kyoto! leon’s last day in japan 🙁 lots of stuff planned for today! sanjusangendo, the torii gate path at fushimi inari shrine, and himeji castle, which is one of the only castles that still consists of it’s original wooden structure. then dinner with estarmir, a friend from high-school. sanjusangendo was surprisingly […]
nara. at first we thought bradley was going to join us this time, but he decided to head to hiroshima instead, because the other day he went the wrong way and ended up in osaka instead 0.o meh. we headed over to the station and towards the tourist info centre, which happened to be closed […]
hiroshima. a new roomie, bradley, was planning on heading to hiroshima as well, so we thought we’d all go together, michelle had another random guy who wanted to join us as well, the more the merrier i guess… anyways. we were supposed to leave at 930, bradley went to go get some breakfast cause he […]
Woke up and left rina’s place around 8 or 9, i cant remember… the four of us squished into the back and we set off to head for kyoto. took a pit stop along the way at a small cafe, all the mountains surrounding were giving off smoke, looked pretty cool. rina’s uncle paid again […]
off to nagoya~ we (leon) called up rina (a fellow ysdn’er) a couple times on the 9th night because we knew she was staying near nagoya with her aunt and uncle, so our plan was to meet with her at around 2 at the nagoya tv tower. after figuring out how to get there as […]
kyoto. whee. first impressions: tokyo was cleaner. the air was nicer. a lot more foreigners are here… but kyoto is kyoto. there are shrines and temples everywhere u look and there is so much to see just within the city, if u like shrines and parks and stuff, of course. today we walked along the […]
catching up! back to hakone! and on to kyoto~ it was a pleasure to see that our suitcases did in fact fit into the lockers at tokyo station. rather perfectly actually… as we woke up, none of us said a word and packed everything up, cleaned up a bit, cleared out of the room. we […]
off we head to hakone! whee. once again. hakone seems very country-side ish, a lot of old houses, quiet quiet quiet neighbourhoods surrounded by lots of trees and slopes up and down. pipes were strung across through trees, pretty cool but… yea. we bought the hakone freepass, giving us unlimited travel through a bunch of […]