Goodbye Kyoto, come back next time

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🤗 Food and Lodging Experience

Kyoto accommodation in Kyoto station near the choice of convenient transportation, whether from the Kansai airport or then set off to Osaka are very convenient, the surrounding alleys are also good to stroll. The first night after arriving, I couldn't wait to go out and sneak around the alleys around the corner to walk a few, and finally chose a small island called tempura store, the flavor is very good quite worth a try. Japanese street restaurants are small, not many places, some need to make a reservation, so if you have a favorite store to remember to check in advance, the alleyway izakaya usually taste good.

In the daytime, it's a different kind of scenery to stroll around the neighborhood, with cute bakeries and quiet coffee shops.

🤗 Visual Experience

Eight o'clock in the morning to go to the Kiyomizu Temple, all the way up, look at the short houses on both sides of the road, some stores are doing the preparatory work for the opening of the door, turn the corner and step on the three years of Sakan two years of Sakan stone road, encountered the countries of the tour group, off-season early in the morning, not too few people, worthy of the tourists of the “capital” Oh? It takes about an hour to tour around Kiyomizu-dera Temple, and the nearby streets are also worth a visit. If the weather is right, you can enjoy a half-day or a day's walk around the temple.

Since it suddenly started raining, I changed my itinerary and went indoors to see Takashi Murakami's exhibition at the Kyoto City Museum of Art, which was a wonderful visual experience of old-fashioned simplicity interspersed with intense and lively colors. (Admission: 2,200 yen)

After the rain stopped, we continued our Kyoto Walk and went up the Kamogawa River for a few steps to experience the exclusive Kyoto chill with the small animals at the water's edge.

🤗 Transportation Experience

Kyoto's itinerary was a little more City Walk oriented, and public transportation became an important part of this slow tour of the city. It was hard to figure out the Japanese subway in Tokyo, but the buses made me a little nervous. Route as usual, still listen to the command of Google map, and most of the domestic public transportation is different, Kyoto is the back door to get on the bus, the front door off. Online query to several ways to swipe the card, and we were riding in the car are on the car does not need to move, get off the driver in the front door next to the card on the line, this belongs to the price of a fare. On the other hand, the sectional fare lines require you to either swipe your card at the back door when you get on the bus or receive a voucher to board the bus, but we didn't encounter that on this trip.

Waiting neatly in line at the bus stop once again brings out the sense of order in the Japanese, and when I first saw it, I wondered what would happen if there was a long line of people waiting for a bus and the bus that the person at the end of the line wanted to catch just happened to be coming into the bus stop, and my Japanese friend answered that if the incoming bus wasn't what the person in the front of the line was waiting for, they would consciously turn around so that the person behind them could pass through. “O, so that's how it works.” Ever the usual anxious person, I had an epiphany for a second.

Touring Kyoto through the windows of the bus seemed to give this quaint and serene city a BGM soundtrack with a bit of rhythm and a touch of flavor compared to the accelerated streetscapes of walking around.

You can travel to Osaka by purchasing a ticket on site at Kyoto Station, which is less than an hour's drive. After transferring to Osaka, the physical sensation is very different. Kyoto gives the impression that everything is slow and loose, while the crowds on the streets of Osaka seem much faster in comparison.

There is also an interesting place, Japan is the country of the left, like in Tokyo are walking on the left, escalators are also on the left side of the station, in a hurry to the right side of the walk, but the elevator in Osaka but let a person a second back to Shanghai, into the “left side of the line right”. Looking through the information on the Internet, there are quite a lot of sayings, it seems to be some of the history of the continuation of the habit, initially from the Hankyu Electric Railway's radio propaganda. 1967 Hankyu Umeda Station set up an escalator, and then anxious Osaka people began to walk in the elevator, in order to be safe, Hankyu Electric Railway appeared on the “left side of the left side of the pedestrians,” the broadcast, and so the habit to this, and at that time, the elevator let people back to Shanghai for a second. No one can say why they chose to “walk on the left and stand on the right” at that time. In Tokyo, the custom of elevators came later than in Osaka, and the custom of “left-handedness and right-handedness” was established in Japan because of the right-handedness of overtaking cars. So don't be confused when you take an escalator in Osaka, but of course, the safest way is “Do not walk on the escalator”.

🤗 Super Mario

Osaka was a quick visit, with only two things to do: shopping and going to USJ. As a Disney lover, I experienced Universal Studios for the first time, and some of my personal feelings, which may not be accurate, are that Disney seems to be more “happy” and Universal Studios seems to be more “shocking”, and this shockingness is due to Mario and Harry Potter. USJ has a lot of tourists 365 days a year, just like Sandy, you can open the app every now and then and be surprised by the queue length. Into the park first in the app to get a Mario's ticket, and then went straight to Harry Potter line up, the two programs added up to nearly three hours, but the experience is still worth it.

The roller coaster in the park looked really exciting did not dare to try, in a variety of thick Hollywood style of the street walk shoot, and then by the yellow man area to play games with the size of the friends and the emotional value of the staff to attract attention, the whole sense of the body has always been pulled in a high point above.

And the moment we entered the Nintendo Park, our sense of shock kind of exploded. “Wow, it's also too awesome!” The words were exhausted to this point, and there was an inner beat of bullish exclamation. The feeling of the moment is like being sucked into the electronic screen, into the real world of Super Mario, the entire park's buildings perfectly reproduce the game scenes, props, and the sky clouds as one, ears ringing familiar background music, eyes from time to time to find familiar game characters, really cool.

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Just a few days seems to be a glimpse of Kyoto and Osaka, but also collected a lot of experience. Quiet buses and subway cars at all times, clean streets with no trash cans to be found, bathrooms that are so clean that it makes you feel better, and department stores that close at 8:00 p.m. despite the fact that things are neatly arranged and abundantly shopped ...... every minute of the time constituted the first experience of Kansai, and naturally, I left the end of the sentence “See you next time” behind. “I'll see you next time,” I said.

See you next time, then.

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