KYOTO!

This morning I was late for my first period class because I misunderstood a message from my COT and thought class was cancelled. Oops. In the afternoon, my life COT helped me sign out early and I met with my 6th grade COT to discuss our open class for next week.

When 3:45 rolled around, I ducked out to head to DMC and meet Jacob. He left work about the same time as me and waited for me at DMC for us to take the airport line to Inchon. We both didn't check any bags so were able to go through a shorter line to check in. Originally we were going to eat somewhere on the outside of security, but looking at the long lines we decided to pick somewhere past security. The line was quite long, but it still only took us about 25 minutes in total. We power walked to the Quiznos which was in a different wing than our gate and power walked back with our sandwiches, only to find a Subway and BK in our wing. Oops. It was good to walk though.

Finally time to board the plane and we were off. It was a short flight, only about 1 hour and 45 minutes. However, we were still served a meal, but it was good we had eaten because they served a salmon sandwich and a small salad with shrimp in it! When we landed in Kyoto, we power walked to immigration. In total from disembarking from the plane to exiting into "Japan", it took us about 20 minutes which was great.

Jacob had done a lot of research and we went to the JR Train Office to buy a roundtrip ticket (KIX to Kyoto) plus a subway card with about $15 worth of money on it. A super sweet deal! The guy told us the next train was leaving in about 4 minutes and we should probably wait for the next one, but we decided to hustle and see if we could make it--we did and had a minute to spare before it took off. The train ride wasn't too exciting, but it was kind of cool to come into the city in the evening and see the lights. The areas we passed on our way into Kyoto were pretty quiet and we didn't see many cars out on the street or people out walking.

We arrived at Kyoto Station and then went on the hunt for our guesthouse. At first, we overshot it and wandered about for maybe 15-20 minutes. Finally we found it and got in. We put our bags in the room (shared dormitory with 4 beds) before exploring the area in hunt of a convenience store for snacks even though it was after 10:30. The snacks were pretty good.

On the plane to Japan!

Train ticket and subway pass

Kyoto Tower 

Late night snacks!