Friday, October 24, 2008
Kyoto To Tokyo
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Today we leave Kyoto for the bustling metroplitan city of Tokyo! That is not to says that Kyoto is a sleepy town, oh no it isn't. Kyoto is quite a nice place to be in.
Woke up, ate breakfast at the hostel's traveller cafe, Zen cafe. It's a buffet breakfast at 680 JPY. It's quite a good deal as you can stuff your face silly on 680 JPY. They have cornflakes, milk, bread, cheese, butter, scrambled eggs and mini sausages. I love their scrambled eggs, it is really smooth and has a nice strong egg yolk taste.
After breakfast, it was down to the yucky task of packing our bags.... eeeew. I hate that. Got ourselves packed and ready to check out by 10 mins to 1100hrs. We then started to hike to the station to buy the Shinkansen tickets for Tokyo. We managed to get tickets for the 1153hrs Nozomi 14 towards Tokyo. The ticket costs 13520 JPY (about 210 SGD) and the ride would take us about 2 hrs and 15 mins.
We almost missed our train because we went to platform 14, instead of going to the platform FOR Nozomi 14... cos we saw the number 14 on the ticket and there was a platform 14 right in front of us lol. Fortunately, we managed to get onto the platform just as the train pulled into the station....... so far we've been doing pretty well on the train systems, so today is the first major hiccup. Wonder what will await us in Tokyo, the famed capital of being lost in the train stations.
We got to Tokyo and proceeded to get to our hostel in Asakusa. Got a little lost trying to find the subway that we were supposed to transfer to... we managed to get to it after asking people, albeit taking a circuitous route.
We got to our hostel amidst the drizzle and checked into a 6 bed dormitory this time. It's certainly different from our twin room in Kyoto where we had the whole room to ourselves, TV and lots more space. The hosteling life is starting to kick in now. As there were 2 guys sleeping in the room, my friend wanted to boogie out of the room asap. We went shopping for groceries in the nearby supermarket and 100 yen shop. We walked round a little bit around Asakusa and went back to the hostel to fix up some dinner.
Not too sure exactly what we'll be doing for the rest of the trip but we're going to Akihabara tomorrow. Hope the weather improves.
Pray for my friend's wallet too.
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