May 3rd, after spending three days in Osaka and its surrounding cities, we were heading for Tokyo.
So we arrived at Namba Station at 0855 in the morning to the airport bus to Itami Airport.
Third day of our graduation trip in Japan.
The plan of the day was to visit the historic Japanese city of Kyoto. Among the sites to see were Fushimi Inari Taisha, Kiyomizu-dera, Kinkaku-ji. There was so many to see in Kyoto that we knew in advance we won't be able to cover them all, so we just took our time touring the city.
Second day of our graduation trip in Japan.
The plan of the day was to visit the sights in Osaka City, returning to our apartment for a party dinner, followed by Japanese-styled spa in the evening.
Since we won't be travelling much in Osaka City, my friends generally got up late today.
First day of our graduation trip in Japan.
The plan of the day was to visit Nara, a city of ancient architecture and wild deer.
Despite that I mentioned in the last post, that the immigration lines at Osaka Kansai Airport were ridiculous line, so it was half past 8 in the evening when we reached our Airbnb apartment near Kuromon Ichiba Market. But since we were university students and this was still early in the night for us, so we decided to take a walk in the surroundings and there came this post of the 0-th day of our Japan trip.
Chinese Labor Day Holiday in May, 2017. After discussions with my undergraduate classmates, we decided that this should be the time for our graduation trip, and we chose Japan as our destination.
During the reservation process, we found that All Nippon Airways (ANA) could offer us a relatively cheap Japan domestic legs in its return tickets, so we chose an itinerary of Beijing - Osaka - Tokyo - Beijing with ANA, the first leg of which is NH980 from Beijing to Osaka.
5 nights, some tourist sites, a few meetings with friends and countless Pokemons later, I was on my return trip to Beijing on April 10th.
In early April I accepted a university's campus visit invitation and visited Chicago area. Given that their 600 dollar allowance on travel, my only choice within that for return trip from Beijing to Chicago was China Eastern Airlines with connection at Shanghai Pudong.
Camera courtesy of Shi Hanyuan of Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Three days of Barcelona shall round off my four week's roaming the world, and it's about time I get back to school before the registration period ended for my last undergraduate semester.
