Sunday, Nov 24
- morning onsen (bless)
- arashiyama was traffic central
- was gonna crash fam’s taxi, but traffic, so rushed to catch 3 trains to make my bus instead (ended up making it and was early too)
- found S.!! :’) stayed with her in Tokyo start of the trip, fun to catch up, lots has happened in 2 months for both of us
ryokan breakfast (thanks fam again bless): miso soup, rice, starters in two boxes 
buffet with mochi blobs, grilled mackerel salad with dif dressings, ponzu mushroom was real good 
and ofc onsen egg + rice *cry 
then they also had salmon so ofc such treat 
welcome to traffic central 
foliage background + cemetery that was next to bamboo path 
bamboo looks peaceful but below, many people 
bus ride out of kyoto, many foliage still! 🙂 
rest stop, bread + yuzu honey warm drink 
bread was pesto + bacon, i didn’t even know lol
some takeaways from quick (weekend) trip in kyoto
if possible, don’t go to kyoto in autumn foliage time because so many tourists, i feel i saw more tourists (percentage wise on the streets) than when i was in tokyo the first week (granted i was not in shinjuku/shibuya/city center that much)
also recognizing that my body is giving me dif signs (ex. headaches, and other things) that i want to slow down a bit, not to ignore the major opportunity i have in traveling and ‘being a tourist’ but also realizing that i’m entering week 9 soon and part of me wants to melt for longer (ty L. in hamamatsu for letting me blob much) and be a visitor in a local community more rather than be ‘the tourist’ in ‘the tourist town’
left arashiyama on bus towards okayama, said bye to cousins + their fam sad face in a v rushed fashion because last minute (via japanese convo with ryokan staff yay!) that better for me to take trains instead of wait for taxi so rush rush and got to bus yay
gyudon (beef bowl) pringles 
image speaks for itself
thick udon ‘yakisoba’ ish style, v yum, v miso, pork was all just fatty pieces v interesting but also bit heavy after 
oyster ‘okonomiyaki’, okayama style, SO good 
close up of the oyster yums 
was not going to drink but there is a limited WHITE GRAPE strong zero so how could i know also tbt to eating white grapes probs for first time at S.’s
real refreshing(? not sure if this is the word, but basically just dif frdship, and she’s also not working/studying, etc) and nice to see S. since she is also figuring out things on her end, lots of good conversations and laughs 🙂
chloe eats 
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