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 == Bernie's brain backup of April 2009 ==
 
-=== April 20th - Shinkansen tour ===
+=== April 21th ====
+
+==== Great temples everywhere ====
+
+==== x264 goodness ====
+
+I re-encoded all videos from MJPEG, the crappy native format of my Canon camera, to x264 (aka MPEG4).
+Firefox 3.1/3.5 still doesn't grok it with the ##video## tag, but I didn't have a
+[[http://theora.org/|Theora]] encoder installed.
+
+=== April 20th ===
+
+==== Best hostel ever ====
+
+The [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Kyoto/UtanoHostel|Utano hostel]] in Kyoto would rival many
+five star hotels I've seen.  Sorry I couldn't take any photos in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onsen | Onsen]].
+
+Also have a look at the impressive [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Kyoto/ShinKyoto|Kyoto station]].
+
+==== Shinkansen tour ====
 
 In a jounery report, the details of transportation are usually left out as uninteresting.
 Except if one takes the fastest train in the world!  We took the
 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dkaid%C5%8D_Shinkansen|Tokaido Shinkansen]] line from Odawara to Kyoto,
 riding on a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/700_Series_Shinkansen|700-series]] train for the
-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikari_%28Shinkansen%29|Hikari service]].
+[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikari_%28Shinkansen%29|Hikari]] service (not the faster
+[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozomi_%28train%29|Nozomi]], but still very impressive).
 
 The ticket cost a whopping 11240 yen per person, and I'm not even getting a
 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Express_999|machine body]] with it! ;-)
 
+See [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Shinkansen|the the photos]] and don't miss the
+[[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Shinkansen/00009-x264.avi|pass-through]] and the
+[[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Shinkansen/00011-x264.avi|on-board]] videos.
+
+{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Shinkansen/00006.jpg|Shinkansen|maxwidth=800}}
+
 === April 19th - Hakone day 2 ===
 
 {{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Hakone2/FujiSanBernieSan.jpg|The Fuji-san (left) with Bernie-san (right)|maxwidth=1024}}