{"id":12612,"date":"2010-12-30T20:47:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=12612"},"modified":"2010-12-30T21:01:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T13:01:25","slug":"day-9-kyoto-to-osaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/12\/30\/day-9-kyoto-to-osaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 9: Kyoto to Osaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 8 and our last day in Kyoto! Strangely, time has passed by relatively slow for us when we&#8217;re on vacation. Though it&#8217;s just been a little over eight days, it seems like we&#8217;ve spent months staying at our &#8216;home&#8217; at Mitsui Garden Hotel. We spent the last early morning hours in Kyoto taking a walk around the Karasuma Train Station area, scrounging around for breakfast, before checking out mid-morning for our 90 minute journey to Osaka.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2010-japan-OLYP5390-kyoto-breads-court-breakfast-karasuma\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/blog-2010-japan-OLYP5390-kyoto-breads-court-breakfast-karasuma_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-japan-OLYP5390-kyoto-breads-court-breakfast-karasuma\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stumbled upon a delightful little bakery and cafe called &quot;Bread&#39;s Court&quot; located at the basement of Karasuma Station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2010-japan-OLYP5389-kyoto-breads-court-breakfast-karasuma\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/blog-2010-japan-OLYP5389-kyoto-breads-court-breakfast-karasuma_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-japan-OLYP5389-kyoto-breads-court-breakfast-karasuma\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breakfast was delightful, though an elderdy local sat next to Ling and made her feel a little uneasy the way he was looking at what we were having!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2010-japan-OLYP5386-kyoto-breads-court-breakfast-karasuma\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/blog-2010-japan-OLYP5386-kyoto-breads-court-breakfast-karasuma_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-japan-OLYP5386-kyoto-breads-court-breakfast-karasuma\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several pastry items, coffee for Ling, tea for me - for about 900\u5186.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2010-japan-OLYP5435-osaka\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/blog-2010-japan-OLYP5435-osaka_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-japan-OLYP5435-osaka\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several hours later at about 11:30 AM, and several train platform transfers, we finally reached Osaka. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2010-japan-OLYP5455-osaka-lutheran-hotel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/blog-2010-japan-OLYP5455-osaka-lutheran-hotel_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-japan-OLYP5455-osaka-lutheran-hotel\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our hotel, and believe it or not, a Christian hotel with a church built into the building even. This hotel is located right beside the Tanimachi 4-chome station along the Chuo train line.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 8 and our last day in Kyoto! Strangely, time has passed by relatively slow for us when we&#8217;re on vacation. Though it&#8217;s just been a little over eight days, it seems like we&#8217;ve spent months staying at our &#8216;home&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/12\/30\/day-9-kyoto-to-osaka\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Day 9: Kyoto to Osaka<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[463,481,468,503],"class_list":["post-12612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveling","tag-japan-2010","tag-kyoto","tag-e-pl1","tag-osaka","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}