Starting off our Kyoto-Osaka trip

At the willerExpress bus terminal (新宿住友ビル1F) waiting for the permission to go to the bus-platform~

Actually it was pretty easy to get to the bus-terminal (u get the directions via email, but the building is 10 minutes from the station walking west from the west exit~) and once u've gotten there, the lady (worker) is gonna anounce your bus and the departure-time^^ IF, however, u won't hear your bus being anounced when there is only 10-5 minutes before departure (like us^^') u can go ask the lady and she will guide u to the right platform/floor. :) When u get to the right platform/floor there will be a worker asking your departure-time and/or bus number (for ex. T123) which after u will be guided to the right bus. Next to the bus there will be one more worker asking your name (and maybe the reservation number) and telling u your sitting place~ so pretty much they work really hard for u not to for so hard^^

Even the bags can be left on the aisle if people can somehow bypass the bag ^^'

All the important informstion about the bus ride will be in japanese/english/chinese/korean so no need to worry. Bus will stop 2-3 times and the time-of-departure is always informed on the bus' door so if u don't understand japanese/hear the announcement right, u will know~

Arriving to Kyoto~

After we arrived and ended up using the right metro (BTW, u can use pasmo/suica in kyoto/osaka area BUT the re-charge is done in the nearest combini cause the mashines won't axcept them^^'), we dropped our bags to the hotel (even though the log-in isn't till 3pm~) we desided to eat breakfast and go circle around the center Kyoto^^

Breakfast~

Empty shopping area~ (it opened at 11 am)

Sweets of Ninja - Famous "restaurant" that makes black crepes..^^ 

Imperial palace (garden)

More garden~

The gate we got to (the inside area of the palace was closed from 17.2 - 28.3 ^^'

How the garden looks like when open^^

Shopping street when open~

Going back to the hotel :)

Our room^^

The view, not that bad :)

All the things there were in the hotel room O.o basically u don't have to take ANYthing with u when coming.. (Toothbrash, shampoos.. Everything^^')

That was all for today (probably going to fix something tomorrow and add the name's of the places (shopping area).. But now too tired~ ..and finland is playing against russia today at ice hockey so have to put all my energy to that XD hope we win~)

All the best,

Laura