{"id":16,"date":"2007-10-17T23:45:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T04:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2014-08-18T17:16:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T22:16:56","slug":"kyoto-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I think my tentative schedule is going to be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10\/26 last day in Okazaki&#8211; go to Osaka.<\/li>\n<li>10\/26-10\/28 Enjoy Osaka, then head to Nara.<\/li>\n<li>10\/28-10\/29 Enjoy Nara, then head to either Hiroshima or Kyoto again, if I feel like more Kyoto.<\/li>\n<li>10\/29-11\/1 Hiroshima or Kyoto<\/li>\n<li>11\/1-11\/3 Kyoto or Hiroshima, or move on to Nagano<\/li>\n<li>11\/3-11\/5 Nagano or Sendai<\/li>\n<li>11\/6 Sendai or&#8230; uh&#8230; I dunno.<\/li>\n<li>11\/8 Arrive in Tokyo.<\/li>\n<li>11\/14 go home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking something along those lines.<\/p>\n<p>Or not.<\/p>\n<p>It all depends on whether I can find a good spa resort or if my mood changes.<\/p>\n<h3>Radio from Home<\/h3>\n<p>One nice thing I&#8217;ve found: my local sports radio station in Raleigh, N.C., has an Internet streaming feed of their local programming, so I can get a little feel of home when I get overwhelmed by all the Japanese culture.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that even with all of the Japanese that I studied, it&#8217;s still really easy to feel culturally overwhelmed here. I think it would almost be easier to understand nothing that to try to puzzle out every sign I see.<\/p>\n<h3>Kyoto Plans<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m leaving Okazaki for my weekend trip to <strong>Kyoto<\/strong> around 5 p.m. local time, so I won&#8217;t get there until 7 p.m. or so. I&#8217;m stopping for dinner at Nagoya Station, because it&#8217;s convenient. I would leave earlier, but I have class until about 3:30 p.m., then I have a 20-min walk home, then it will take time to catch the bus to the train station.<\/p>\n<p>It all adds up.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, my hotel in Kyoto has &#8220;Internet LAN,&#8221; but in practice, well, we&#8217;ll see what that really means.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night I&#8217;m planning to hang around Gion a bit and maybe find a restaurant with a nice river view. Gion is the part of Kyoto where you&#8217;ll find all the <em>geisha<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And the tourists.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, I&#8217;m planning on shrine-ing out. My hotel is 10 minutes from the Fushimi Inari shrine, so I&#8217;ll try to go there first. After that it&#8217;s Kiyomizu Temple, the Golden Pavilion, and a bunch more. I found a really cool magazine (in Japanese, of course) that has a great map with pictures on it, so I can pick the more photogenic shrines and temples to visit.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I&#8217;ll go to wherever I missed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try to pace myself, because I learned in Nagoya that if I don&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll <em>suffer<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I think my tentative schedule is going to be: 10\/26 last day in Okazaki&#8211; go to Osaka. 10\/26-10\/28 Enjoy Osaka, then head to Nara. 10\/28-10\/29 Enjoy Nara, then head to either Hiroshima or Kyoto again, if I feel like more Kyoto. 10\/29-11\/1 Hiroshima or Kyoto 11\/1-11\/3 Kyoto or Hiroshima, or move on to <a href='https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=16' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[894,827,167,274,100,895],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip","category-travel","tag-japan-trip","tag-japan2007","tag-kyoto","tag-nagoya-station","tag-okazaki","tag-travel","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}