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 === 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
@@ -61,10 +66,11 @@ restaurant in Dotombori, one specialized in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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,
+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 ===