Kinki

So I was all over Kinki this past week. For those of you who are like "eww, I don't want to hear about Stephanie's sex life" Kinki is a region in Japan. There are a lot of old temples and whatever there, as well as some that were recreated after WWII.

So Yosenex and I headed out by Shinkansen (bullet train) and got there super fast on Sunday.  First thing I noticed was how much people were noticing me! Even back in the US I'm used to a certain amount of staring, so the level of people staring at me here in Kanto is not really that jarring for me. Well I have been spoiled, because we all got stared at like CRAZY in Kansai (exempting, of course, where there were a lot of tourists).

A neat Samurai statue in the Daibutsu (big buddah) temple in Nara.

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We came back to Tokyo by night bus to save money (one third the price, boo-yah!), and it seemed it was going to suck big time because the chairs didn't recline. But we were just morons and couldn't find the lever 'till three hours in.