There will be no photos for this entry. They are what really hold up my posting of what`s going on. In this case, since I`m writing from the Japanese style keyboard on the common room computer at the Nara Youth Hostel, this will not be a long note. I may have mentioned in my last post that we would be heading to Nara on Tuesday morning. It is ( Read more... )

On Saturday at the hotel, I had the smallest bathroom I've ever seen in a hotel room. I think that it is even smaller than all of the apartment bathrooms I've seen.


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It is now Monday and I'm safely ensconced in Daishin-in. It is a beautiful temple in the middle of the Myoshinji temple complex. It was relatively easy to get from the hotel in near Kansai airport all the way here to Daishin-in. Since I only took the rapid and the local trains not the express I only paid 1770 yen for the entire trip. I arrived ( Read more... )

I'm very glad that I'm here but am also in post travel funk. I chose a hotel this first night because it had a shuttle from the airport and another to the train station so I can get to Kyoto tomorrow. However, I assumed (I know that assume makes an ass out of U and ME!) that there would be some kind of courtesy phone or that information would ( Read more... )