=== April 23rd -- Kyoto last day ===
-==== Last day in Kyoto: Arashiyama ====
+==== Morking: Arashiyama by bike ====
- * Hmmm...
+In the morning of this sunny day, we biked to a few locations on the
+east side of Kyoto:
-==== A city I did not like ====
+ * [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Kyoto/Dakakuji|Dakakuji]], an active Shingon Buddhist temple
+ * [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Kyoto/Tenryuji|Tenryuji]], another beautiful Buddhist temple with a beautiful Zen garden, next to a bamboo forest
+ * [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Kyoto/Monkey_Park|Monkey Park]], a place where you can closely observe and interact with Japanese macaques.
+
+==== Evening: 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
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,
+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.
+We rushed back to the metro to Shin-Osaka, JR train to Kyoto, local train to
+Arashiyama, where our bikes were still waiting for us for the ride back home.
=== April 22nd ===