7:10: Finished packing up, wrote a thank you message in the Rickshaw Inn’s guestbook and checked out. The owner was a very nice man that bowed deeply and said thank you ‘arigato gozaimas[u]’ and ‘hai!’ chronically. He expressed concern over us making it to our train on time with such large backpacks but we made it with a few minutes to spare. I would of liked to of arrived early but we were up till 2am packing and double checking our bags. We’re a little sleep deprived from trying to fit so much in the past week.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n 8:00 – 10:33: Shinkansen (bullet train) from Takayama to Nagoya<\/p>\n 10:48 – 11:44: Shinkansen from Nagoya to Kyoto (Kodama 637, Car 8 Seats 6A & B)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mariko’s Apartment<\/b><\/p>\n For our stay in Kyoto I booked a self check-in apartment on airbnb.com with great reviews. We were not disappointed. We are in a great location and the apartment is fantastic. It came fully stocked with toiletries, travel guides, and some groceries. Fantastic!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Walking around Gion and Kyoto <\/strong> Lawson <\/p>\n <\/p>\n …and I adore this girl!<\/em> –Karl<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Continue Reading: Japan, Day 11: Kyoto’s Golden Pavilion & Rock Garden<\/a> We parted ways with Takayama and the Rickshaw Inn today and made our way to Kyoto via two bullet trains. It took us a bit to figure out the bus system and we ended up getting on the wrong 206 bus so we made almost a complete loop of the city, but an hour and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[26,54],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-travel","tag-japan","tag-takayama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2515.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XnUB-ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5094,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/5094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2216.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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