Japan (Day 8) – Kyoto, Part 1 [Video]
(Note: Bumper crop of images — almost 60 of them!) Early in the morning I had to leave Tokyo for Kyoto, where I would be spending the next two days with xanthe! To reach Kyoto I would take the super high-speed bullet train from Tokyo station. I had never been on a bullet train before so I was looking forward to it. In Japan, the bullet train is referred to as “Shinkansen”. In general, I tend to dislike asking for directions. Instead I would prefer navigating around on my own. The only thing is that the Shinkansen line at Tokyo station has about a gazillion different platforms and I ended up on the wrong platform! In the end I had to seek help at the information counter. Lesson learned: always ask for directions when you have heavy luggage and a large Hello Kitty cushion in tow! Three kinds of bullet train ply the tokaido Shinkansen line from Tokyo to shin-Osaka (kyoto lies along this route). My rail pass allowed me to take the hikari train, which I did at 11:06am. Every hour, two hikari trains operate on this route. Each train travels as quickly as 300 kilometres per hour. At [...]
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Apr 10, 2009
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love you’re posts girl, very inspiring to go and travel by myself!!!….sounds very tempting lol
as for the little cute car you like, it is very common here in Canada….. I’m guessing from what I’ve read you are from the Philipines, do they not have Mercedes there? The car is called a “Smart Car” here, which is manufactured by Mercedes. Google it to see if its the same thing you saw, looks about right from the picture.
But besides that, love it all & keep it up!!! A++++
Apr 11, 2009
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Hey girl, thanks for letting us know that it’s the Mercedes Smart car! Yup, it’s the same car we saw alright. Its curves, the size… this car looks absolutely adorable! I am actually from Singapore, and I don’t think I have ever seen the Smart car here before. (I might be totally blind though.) All the Mercedes cars here are the big and posh models driven by the upper class.
Nov 29, 2009
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ehm… i tot in ur hello kitty post says u dun eat pork . but here u ordered a pork cutlet set . that’s weird .
Nov 29, 2009
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I don’t like pork, but I don’t strictly keep away from it.
Nov 29, 2009
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oic , so u r not a porky person :)
Feb 3, 2010
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BANGLES IS EXELLENT