[Fushimi Inari Taisha] Budget Journey to the Land of The Rising Sun, Japan. Day: 4 – Kyoto

I was always excited to face another morning in Japan, I woke up without any hesitation and even before the alarm rang. I checked my blister from yesterday snow storm, and it got better. Suddenly, i remembered yesterday was a blizzard, so i also checked out the street from my window. it was decorated with snow!!! (the kid inside me is literally screaming).

(snow piled up)

We had breakfast at Lawson to save up some time today, my pick was onigiri set and Sakura latte with crushed strawberry from Starbucks. It was dope!! out of the nice line of foods galore, i chose the onigiri set, why? it was convenient and cheaper than one onigiri (lol). 

(there are 2 lawsons nearby my hotel)

Budget Journey to the Land of The Rising Sun, aka, Japan Day: 3 – Osaka – Himeji – Kyoto

Waking up at early of 6 AM in Japan time (4 f-ing AM in Jakarta time) was really hard for me normally, especially when you had a sleepless night before and only got 5 hours of sleeping, but the holiday’s endorphin really kicked in and made me wide awake. We only had one bathroom for a room occupied by 4 persons, when I did the math (which I really do) we only got 15 minutes of bathroom time. After some of us had finished our bath time, we rushed to go to the cafeteria to redeem our free breakfast meal (yess free food!!). we had to choose, whether a Japanese or western meal, and guess what? No one chose western (we’re in Japan of course we have to try the local dishes). The Japanese meal looks like this:

(Japanese breakfast: Seaweed, Vegetables, plum, miso soup, tamago egg, salmon and rice with apple tea)

After we finished our delightful breakfast, the rain started to pour hard in front and none of us dared to go through. We unfortunately decided to ditch one attraction and Shintenoji was the one. Rain was still pouring outside but passable, we stored our baggage and borrowed umbrella from the hotel and rushed to the shin-osaka  station. It took only less than 10 minutes to arrive. We used our JR Pass to go from Shin-Osaka to Osaka and Osaka-Jo Koen station.

(Osaka Jo Koen)