Today we went to see the last thing we had planned to visit in Kyoto, the Inari Shrine.
The weather was somewhat bad, so we had to wear umbrellas, but this didn't really affect the looks of the pathway through the gates. It was really impressive to walk through all those gates, although we got really tired. We didn't sleep much this night, and the path goes up a really steep hill. We forced ourselves, however, to climb up to a place from where we could see the whole city, and took some pictures from there while we rested a bit.
While walking back to the hotel we stopped at a department store to buy some bentos to have something to eat during our trip to Osaka. I had been missing the food at home for some time and never knew why. I thought about everithing I ate at home to see if I was missing something specific. Hmm. Meat? Nope, there was meat in the bentos. Fish? No, even though we haven't had sushi yet (it's expensive, you know), we've had fish in the bentos. Pasta? No. It's definately not pasta. I've been eating ramen and udon a lot. There can't be anything missing... Damn. What is it?
Well, when we bought the bentos I noticed what it was. I just had been searching for the wrong thing. There was nothing missing. It was simply something I was eating in excess. Rice. Plain rice. In every bento we've had had one half random stuff like meat or fish and another half rice. Hey, I like rice. I have nothing against rice. I really would love to have some rice with tomato sauce and eggs, rice with vegetables, etc. But I don't want any plain rice anymore... :'(
This is the problem of doing a low budget trip. We can't afford the good stuff. So we have to stick to the cheapest things we can find at supermarkets...
The trip from Kyoto to Osaka was in fact really short. It just took 13 minutes with the Shinkansen to get to Shin-Osaka, and then about twenty minutes from there to our hotel using local trains. The hotel is not precisely the best I've been to, but for 2000 yen a night it's great.
Since we had nothing planned for today, we decided to rest a bit while watching japanese TV.
The first thing we saw was nothing out of the ordinary. Just the typical completely crazy japanese talk show. Remember, the main idea was to rest, so it didn't matter what was on TV (actually this was the BEST there was).
The shocking thing came some time later. Anyone who's ever watched MTV knows those dating shows where there's one main person and then several contestants of the other sex who "try to seduce him/her". At the end the main person has to choose one of the contestants and go out on a date. I don't personally think those programs make much sense, but I accept them. If people like to appear on TV doing that kind of stuff, that's their problem. The thing that I don't quite understand is how that is done with children... Yeah, that's what they showed on TV. A dating show with ten-year-olds... No, I'm not joking. It was really creepy...
Anyway, after going to the nearby 100-yen shop to buy dinner (guess what was in it...RICE!) and walking around in our rather weird neighbourhood we turned on TV again and found Harry Potter. Yay, Hermione saying "chotto matte yo!" :D. The voices seem pretty natural though. Actually they managed to make Harry Potter look more natural when speaking in the japanese version than in the spanish dub (even though there's the whole thing with not looking even slightly asian).
By the way, we found the spanish tourists from Kawaguchiko here again. I wonder if there is a single place in Japan where we can't find anyone from Spain :)
PS: I just saw an ad on TV with the dancing guy from the internet on it (visit http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/ for more info). He's already on Japanese TV. This is yet another proof for the infinite possibilities of the internet. This guy once decided to stop working and went on a trip around the world. He did his dance in front of a camera in different places as some sort of joke, and put it on the internet. And now, he's "famous" (hey, how many youtube videos get to be shown as an ad on TV?)
The weather was somewhat bad, so we had to wear umbrellas, but this didn't really affect the looks of the pathway through the gates. It was really impressive to walk through all those gates, although we got really tired. We didn't sleep much this night, and the path goes up a really steep hill. We forced ourselves, however, to climb up to a place from where we could see the whole city, and took some pictures from there while we rested a bit.
While walking back to the hotel we stopped at a department store to buy some bentos to have something to eat during our trip to Osaka. I had been missing the food at home for some time and never knew why. I thought about everithing I ate at home to see if I was missing something specific. Hmm. Meat? Nope, there was meat in the bentos. Fish? No, even though we haven't had sushi yet (it's expensive, you know), we've had fish in the bentos. Pasta? No. It's definately not pasta. I've been eating ramen and udon a lot. There can't be anything missing... Damn. What is it?
Well, when we bought the bentos I noticed what it was. I just had been searching for the wrong thing. There was nothing missing. It was simply something I was eating in excess. Rice. Plain rice. In every bento we've had had one half random stuff like meat or fish and another half rice. Hey, I like rice. I have nothing against rice. I really would love to have some rice with tomato sauce and eggs, rice with vegetables, etc. But I don't want any plain rice anymore... :'(
This is the problem of doing a low budget trip. We can't afford the good stuff. So we have to stick to the cheapest things we can find at supermarkets...
The trip from Kyoto to Osaka was in fact really short. It just took 13 minutes with the Shinkansen to get to Shin-Osaka, and then about twenty minutes from there to our hotel using local trains. The hotel is not precisely the best I've been to, but for 2000 yen a night it's great.
Since we had nothing planned for today, we decided to rest a bit while watching japanese TV.
The first thing we saw was nothing out of the ordinary. Just the typical completely crazy japanese talk show. Remember, the main idea was to rest, so it didn't matter what was on TV (actually this was the BEST there was).
The shocking thing came some time later. Anyone who's ever watched MTV knows those dating shows where there's one main person and then several contestants of the other sex who "try to seduce him/her". At the end the main person has to choose one of the contestants and go out on a date. I don't personally think those programs make much sense, but I accept them. If people like to appear on TV doing that kind of stuff, that's their problem. The thing that I don't quite understand is how that is done with children... Yeah, that's what they showed on TV. A dating show with ten-year-olds... No, I'm not joking. It was really creepy...
Anyway, after going to the nearby 100-yen shop to buy dinner (guess what was in it...RICE!) and walking around in our rather weird neighbourhood we turned on TV again and found Harry Potter. Yay, Hermione saying "chotto matte yo!" :D. The voices seem pretty natural though. Actually they managed to make Harry Potter look more natural when speaking in the japanese version than in the spanish dub (even though there's the whole thing with not looking even slightly asian).
By the way, we found the spanish tourists from Kawaguchiko here again. I wonder if there is a single place in Japan where we can't find anyone from Spain :)
PS: I just saw an ad on TV with the dancing guy from the internet on it (visit http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/ for more info). He's already on Japanese TV. This is yet another proof for the infinite possibilities of the internet. This guy once decided to stop working and went on a trip around the world. He did his dance in front of a camera in different places as some sort of joke, and put it on the internet. And now, he's "famous" (hey, how many youtube videos get to be shown as an ad on TV?)
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Arriving at the Inari Shrine
Walking trough the gates at Inari
Our daily meal. I'm starting to hate rice...
The view from our hotel room in Osaka
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