Kyoto & last day

28/11
Chill in osaka. Visited osaka castle. Had ichiran ramen. Castle quite beautiful but is more modern than I expect. The exterior is brick based (not stone or wood). Nice place to walk around and chill.

After that I took elise to aquarium.

Dinner had sukiya. I ordered beef with grated radish

29/11
Went to Kyoto again. To Inari first. Hiked all the way up to the top. Nothing great. No view. Just a  shrine. Was disappointed but I made a wish.

The whole journey up and down took about an hour. Caught up with sis and ah Mei jie to head to Arashiyama. Had noodles at the street side(no place to sit cos it was raining).

Walked the bamboo forest. Beautiful but too packed with ppl.

Walked tenryuji temple's garden. Ate a date plum.

Parted ways with big sis (catching train back to tokyo) and ah Mei jie (going home with robert). Left ah leng, elise, Jo and me.

Walked around Arashiyama for another hour +(shopping primarily) before taking Jr to Kyoto for a walk about. The highlight of the trip to Kyoto was a smelly homeless guy who shared the same cart as we did. We changed on the following stop to another cart. HOWEVER, after shopping at aeon Kyoto, we bumped into him again, after Jo manage to caught his fowl scent. :l

Anyway had dinner at the station. The station has this observation deck/Sky Garden. Worth going, esp in daytime. At night harder to take photos. They also set up this really huge Christmas tree with leds playing images to the tune of the music.

We (elise and me) head home, leng and Jo went shopping. Caught flu (likely due to my attire today (light clothing as I was planning for my hike up inari)

30/11
Morning had noodle set with rice, tofu, egg and unagi, sashimi. value for. Money!

Bought the dried fruits.

Walked win ah Mei jie to buy her whiskey. Bought a beer Ebisu premium and 5 piece sushi (this one cost only 500y cos late d).

Bought my specs and having it sent to ying kuan. Cost me 11.3k. Pray nothing goes wrong with the delivery.

Played fm whole day. Sold Emre can for 70m.got youngsters in one to replace him.

Last dinner in Japan and I am having Coco ichibaya. Didn't manage to try Matsuaka Yakiniku recommended by Calvin N kf

How was the trip.