Posts Tagged ‘kyoto’

lodgings in japan

Booking hotels in Japan when you don’t have decent proficiency in the Japanese language is a headache. I didn’t have the stomach to have others suffer my very-rusty spoken Japanese, so I turned to Rakuten for all my lodging needs. Rakuten does have an English site, but I found the Japanese site to have a [...]

kobe and the first evening of kyoto

30 October 2009, Friday Reached Kobe at around 8 am. Supposed to alight in front of the Sogo Sannomiya station, but traffic was a little hectic so we got dropped off about 10 minutes before. Understandably, we didn’t know where on earth we were, so we walked around blindly for a while before finding someone [...]