Trip to Nagoya, Kyoto and Back (1)

You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions
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I finally set out my trip to the west of Japan, Kansai, where people are more friendly and loud. I am the true believer of abusing oneself in order to save money (in fact, it is very fun to do to calculate the expense and seriously control my budget, I don't know why it is almost like an addiction. However, my experience told me 99% of the time, the cheapest turns out to cost me similar to those expensive package).

Anyhow, cheapo grad student traveling usually registers more fun. We tend to remember the catastrophic events more than pleasant ones of our traveling years later. Cheapo grad student travel style proves to bring more trouble and embarrassments, I think this is a great way to kill time if traveling alone.

My main purpose to Kyoto is to attend the Zen class, which is taught by English speaking Monk. I went through his resume carefully, University of Austin grad study of international affair, I only hope that he didn't earn his degree in 1950. Anyhow, since Nagoya is between the Tokyo and Kyoto, I decide to pay Irene a visit (and party with friends, Ayumi, whom we met in London). I decided to travel by night bus, which was scheduled to depart from Tokyo around 11pm and arrive in Nagoya at 6am. The fare is half of Shinkensien (bullet train), and I was only too eager to experience the overnight bus. I walked to the station with my backpack, huge because I had to stuff my rollerskates in. It was raining very hard, I had a very feeling when seeing the bus that is going to take me all the way to Nagoya.

It is just a normal bus, the seat is small and air stuff, there is no bathroom on board, man, it is even worsen than the airport limobus. It is too late to turn back, I have paid for the ride therefore I went. The seat was definitely worse than anything you can imagine, there is no way you can correctly place your head when sleeping without pain after waking up. The interior was sealed by heavy curtain, we cannot even see the driver, who is very diligent, dutifully awake when arriving in a service area every 2 or 3 hours. I still managed to sleep, however, it is just very annoying that when I arrived in Nagoya, I had to spend some coins to sit on the massage chair to release the uneasiness.