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 === April 23rd -- Kyoto last day ===
 
-We visited a few more places:
+==== Last day in Kyoto: Arashiyama ====
 
  * Hmmm...
 
+==== A city I did not like ====
+
+At last, I've found a place I actually didn't like much in Japan!
+The first impression of Osaka's central station was that it was old and
+dirty.  Of course one could still eat on the floor, and coming from
+[[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Kyoto/Shin_Kyoto|Kyoto's station]] might
+have compromised my judgement.  There was big crowd of busy people
+everywhere, and if //you// bump into someone, //they// don't apologize
+for it.
+
+Our copy of the Lonely Planet highly recommended [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dtonbori|Dotonbori]]
+at night for its "Blade Runner views", so we headed there.  They must have watched
+a version of the movie with bad special fx, because all I could observe in
+Dotonbori was a narrow street sided by neon signs of restaurants and pachinkos.
+Just above average, imho, and certainly not worth the time and the price of the
+train ticket.  Unless you're a moth, perhaps.
+
+We granted our guide a second chance and choosing their highest rated
+restaurant in Dotombori, one specialized in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udon|udon]].
+There was no English menu and the only food I could order was a chest of cold
+spaghetti on a bamboo crate with no sauce but a cup of soy sauce, also cold of course,
+in which one could dip them separately.  Or so I understood: the waiters were extremely
+kind but wouldn't speak English, which created even more confusion.  Dulcis in fundo,
+the bill was much higher than usual and they wouldn't take credit cards.
+
+No, it didn't rain.
+
+
 === April 22nd ===
 
 ==== Food ====