so yeah.. today was great! went to okunoin today... the big, world heritage site graveyard.. and did it blow my mind or what?! it was great! even thou the trainride cost my money and took for like forever, i ended up loving the place, and freezing to bits...  freggin cold up the bloody mountain Kooya... 800 m above sea level or sumthing, had to ride a supercool mountaintrain to get there! u know, the ones who is built diagonal, with steps in them! skansen got a light version of them i think...

but other than that, i`v in total spent about 5 hours on freggin trains today... first 3 hours i slept like a baby, but then i actually went and read some in my book that took me so much pain to find.. nice one to! Bag of Bones by S.King, one fav that u can find in any country, like that... first 100 pages done, i`m good and psyched to finish it, gonna have a loads of time to do that tomrow when i try getting to the first of the 88 temples.. *looking forward to it SO much* but that also seems to be a journey that will take forever...  about 3 hours from namba (luckily i can get there pretty quick) and the trainride seems to take the same amount of foreverness... have to think on that nut a bit then i guess... what to do and such...

so yeah, okunoin!

the best freggin place ever! i`m so sad i can`t show u any pic`s at the moment, because they all turned out so freggin nice! had the best possible weather as well. very sunny, and that keept shining throu the big trea crowns and just casting an amazing feeling over the whole place! made some nice photos for me to. so i`m happy! what else, meet this nice couple, that had the traditional robes of a pilgrim (actually saw a lot of them, but these were the only ones i spoke to).  without knowing much jap we had an interesting conversation. i couldn`t figure out why they did the pilgrimage, but i know where they are from, what they have been so far, where the journy is going to take them and that they go by car..  married couple of about 55 i would say. we had a bit of tea and walked together for a bit. nice.

saw the temple of a thousand lanterns, but unfortunaly no photos allowed, so i can't show u anything, but it was mindblowing to say at least!

but then i also have some more wonderful news for ya! i bought and ate tonkatsu udon, on of the best things japan have to offer, food wise anyhow.. and i bought the coolest thing ever! a prayer bead band!  SO COOL! i love it! but wierdly enough it got to many beads... i bought it at one of the biggest get togethers for buddism, and it got the wrong no of beads? its supposed to be 108, i got 114... wel, i'm not a praying anything, but still it's pretty awsome... like that i've been thinking of the next time i go to rome, if i ever get back there for the vatican, i will buy me a rosary..

just because im so freggin cool!

yeah.. my day have been pretty much, and im hungry and tierd at the moment, so i will end this soon, chatt a bit more with sambon and when i get REAL tierd in a few moments i will brush my teeth and go to bed. so.. yeah.. 

so yeah.. when i got to this place it seemed like the freaking dump of the backalleys of osaka. but now, i`m in freaking love!

in my bed, there is a Thick fucking madress, i`ll sleep like a god! and there is also a feather cover, and some freakish pillow, but that`s okay..

the kitchen is a freaking warzone, Do Not Enter, but i`ll survive like i have so far, without a kitchen and with a lot of noncooked food. or eat out.. can do that as well.. no problemo!

the loung is okey, but i`s japanese style so freaking hurting my back, and my knees, and my but! but i guess i`ll survive that 2..

because the best is still to be told....

it`s the public  bath around this corner, it`s even better than i imagined! bit bigger then the one i used in Nara, but it`s... WOW

got a cold bath, got a f-ing hot bath, a electric, bubbles, and so far nothing like the one in Nara didn`t also have... but this... waaaaaaait for it....

waaaaaait for it...

this one had a FREAKING outside bath! sure, roof and such, but still, i saw the nightsky and the wind was blowing in my hair! COOL, and also how i like my baths. hot, but with cold air above... this was a personal little heaven! spent a wounderfull hour there, and that without beeing in the mood for it. tomorrow, i`m going to the highlight of my trip, and hope that i`ll be able to work up a nice bath appetite or sumthing... `cuz there is no way in hell that i`m going to miss a single night at this place! HellNo!  as long as there is breath in my boody i`ll get myself there and back... yeah...

i`m still blown away by this revelation... i`m going to bed now, and i`ll sleep like a new born baby star...

mjo.. idag skulle jag ju till arashiyama o titta pa bamboo groves och coola tempel... foga anade jag att de skulle borja pissregna nar jag kommit fram...sa jag hikar mest runt lite gran, ser ett tempel o massa bamu trad, har supercoola foton for er intresserade, men sen gav jag upp. tankte jag aker tillbaka till kyoto, tittar runt lite pa stationen, finns en skywalk o tradgard langs upp, 15 vaningen eller natt sant. ratt cool utsikt... men regnigt.

sa iaf, jag bestamde mig for att ga o kopa en bok, hade ganska mkt tid pa mig innan jag kunde checka in i osaka, sa jag trodde, de har funkar nog bara prima vettni! men icke sa nicke. tror ni att den bokhandeln jag satsade pa att forsoka hitta fanns kvar? nope... o jag spenderade minst en timme med att forsoka hitta skitstallet oxa! irriterande minst sagt. men sen hittade jag en annan bokhandel, kopte mig en s.king som jag ska forsoka njuta av sa mkt som jag kan kommande dagar da jag kommer bo pa diverse tag for att ta mig overallt.. suck...

men till slut nu kom jag fram till hostlet en timma sen drygt,,, o jag har inte kunnat checka in annu! frustrerande jag vet! varfor kan jag inte checka in? vem ar det som har hand om det egentligen? wierd... o tanten som jag tror bor har pratar ingen engelska,, men jag fick iaf tillgang till dator o en kopp gront te... nu ska jag bara fa nykel eller nagot, hitta ett bra stalle att sova, dumpa vaskorna, kolla ifall de lokala badhuset tillater tatueringar, o i sanna fall ska jag bada mest hela natten! YAY

so yeah, whats up with that? my real grandpa died just a few days ago, got a msg on FB from someone non important... and my mom's dad passed away a few weeks ago... and now? this old crazy fucker i once had a fight with went and commited sucide!

i knew he messed up his life, but i never knew he messed up this bad... that was a shocker. maybe drugs involved and shit? havn't talked to him for several years, but still... he was someone meet fairly often for a short period of my life, and the personal opinon i'll keep to myself for it's disrespectfull to speak ill of the dead.

makes it all more approriet that i'll be heading for a crazy old graveyard tomorrow... today i'm only heading for the bambou grove, and some temples...

and tonight i'll be sleeping in osaka! grooovy baby!

sa... jag ar nu antligen hemma efter en natt runt i kyoto med nagra andra har pa hostlet, den irriterande tjejen, en snubbe fran brooklyn N.Y med cowboyhatt, en tjej fran carlifornien med sin mor som harstammar fran vietnamn. just a random bunch of cool ppl. o, ja, snubben som irriterande tjejen hamtade pa 7/11... kanada va han ifarn ja..

hm, vi forsokte hitta den har irlandska puben , Maclaughlin, men de gick inte, vi hamnade pa en annan brittisk pub, hade en ol, och medans kanadensaren hade midda (pizza) sa gick jag o letade efter irlandska puben. hittade den till slut, insag att de har va inget drag, gick tillbaka till de andra och efter att ha hort mitt verdickt om det irlandska stallet sa gick vi i samlad trupp till pig'n'whistle, som sog hardare an nagot annat idag, totalt dott va det.

sa gick vi snabbt vidare till den sista puben for kvallen (iaf for mig) Gaele, eller natt sant. packad me folk! jag fick i mig lite killkennys och bailys me mjolk, o nu kanner jag mig supersnurrig, inte alls bra da jag ska ivag imorgon bitti, titta pa bambutrad o sant. inte mkt annat att gora, ska vara utchekad till 11, funderar pa att eventuellt checka ut, men att stanna kvar o ata frukost efter utcheckningen... beror pa nar jag orkar mig upp ur sangen imorgon bitti. maste iaf satta klockan pa runt 10... suck... nu ska jag skypa med mamsen, harligt harligt...

okej, now, its fucking quite around here, and when i got to my room i discovered something freaky... last night, EVERY bed was sleept in, so i figured, some might stay, but no, its just me and that chick i told u about yesterday. the dolphin trainer. it's... sad i think...

and i discovered what i'm going to do tomorrow as well... i'll go check out some cool bamboo groves, and temples! then to ooooosaka ill go. but sadly, i couldn't find anything cool to do in osaka, so one day i'll spend at the oku no in, one day i'll take to explore the first temple of the 88 temples and the surroundings for that. then i'm going to kobe, or i'll take the day in osaka, going to the fishes. they got a rumor about a whale shark or a shark whale at that aquarium, and since i missed the one in nagoya, i might as well do it now. then after that, it's 2 nights in hiroshima, i'm thinking about doing the d-day-dome, and some memory lane sites as well as that awsome big red gate. if i got the time and the passion i might do more, but this is all i've planed so far... and i don't even know if that will do....

yeah... so i'm waiting for a life sign, from somewhere, anywhere, anyone... do i even dare to walk to this pub alone? being raped, and murdered and otherwise violated doesn't sound to fun... but then i'm the big bad skandinavian.. if ppl just look at me wrong i'll freakishly kill them! yeah!

hola mi amigos! right now i'm back from a VERY busy day in kyoto.. saw the kinkakuji, so now we have done the temples everyone will ask if  i've been to if i say i've been to kyoto.  complete waste of time, don't go if u don't really wanna be able to say u have been there. u r being herded like sheep, not many great photo moments cuz there r so many tourists! and some jap ppl as well... schoolkids and the likes.

so. hm. yeah. no, i'm done with that, no need to dwell.

let's do my fun part of the day! YAY! so, waking up at round 9ish, everyone is gone! nice i think, taking my sweet time to start the day... will do so tomorrow again, but tomorrow i gotta do sumthing more constructive of my day, since i won't be getting to my hostel in osaka untill 19.00 what to do then? remember, got the heavy backpack to think of as well... bummer! if i don't use one of them lockers they have at the station to get rid of it, thats actually a good idea. hm. will ponder on that later. as well as to where next to go. if staying in kyoto for one more day is prudent or if i shall go for osaka next. really i doesn't matter cuz with the JRpass it only takes like... 20 minutes top from one city to the next!

well, after the anticipated dissapointment of the kinkakuji, i went onwards to inari, to find the coolest plays so far on this trip no 2. Fusimi-Inari Taisha it's called. and that includes a mountain... and some temples and a hiking trail over 4 km long.  and YEAH i did it all! climbed that fucking mountain (had to do a lot of persuasive thoughts to overcome the exhaustion, like, this is good training for the great wall of chine when i get there, and, when i've finished this i will be able to say i did it all instead of saying i chickened out at the last temple) and now my feets hurts just thinking about it.. and my legs! my POOR legs! for it wasn't just upphill this little hike, it was mostly stairs... u use another technic for climbing stairs than for going uphill! and my LEGS were killing me all the time! for not only was the peek so bloddy way up high 232 m, but it had a lot of smaller peaks before it so u went up, and then up and down and up and down and round and round. u know of the saying 2 steps forward 1 step back? thats how it feelt in the end... 2 hours it took me to get to the absolute top... 2 bloody hours of stedily climbing those f-ing stairs... and then it took me less time down... wierd huh? maybe made it down in half an hour or sumthing... had to take a break a few times even on the way down... going down staris takes it tolls to on ur legs...  was shaking like a chicken when i took my final break and then made a long dash, and ended up at the trainstation again.

bought myselft a little souvenir as well... wanted to buy some cute little fox, thats what is connected to all these temples anyway, but there weren't any cute ones so bought a ningyo instead... a cute little one to go on my keychange, cuz i've got no more space on my cellphone.

so back in kyoto i was dying for sumthing to eat, decided against my tummy and with my legs and decided to buy sumthing, eat at the hostel, take a nap and rest from the horrid ordeal i just been throu. but i have not yet eaten cuz i've been sitting here. writing e-mails, checking FB and the usual bloggs and stuff... now my hand hurts from this stupid keyboard (some one must have spilt sumting sticky on it, the keys are REALLY hard to press down) i'm cold and hungry and my legs hurts... it's time for comfort food, and deciding on what to do next, drinking, sleeping or sightseeing... hard choice!

okej, de finns inte aao, pa den har datorn, sa jag hoppas att ni kan klara er utan det. lar inte finnas pa de andra stallerna heller tyvarr... vilket gor det lite roligt att skriva. hihi, men ni listar val ut vad som star iaf, aven om de saknas lite prickar har o dar...

sa, forsta dagen pa japan resan no 2. vilken pars!

borjade dagen med for lite somn, de blev precis som mamma varnade, o som jag sjalv misstankte, att jag inte skulle kunna sluta lasa efter att jag borjat, och vid 2 tiden kom jag i sang. o sen vid 6 upp igen. dumpa over toaster o lite notter till 202, packa ner de sista, och sedan dra ivag. till nagoya och kinesiska konsulatet, dar jag far reda pa att jag inte alls kan ansoka om visum dar. jaha? vad ska jag gora nu tanker jag lite i panik.... men far forklarat for mig att om jag gar till en resebyra sa hjalper de mig. sa jag far en liten lapp, o efter en stunds skattletande kom jag fram till ratt stalle, bara for att inse, att de finns ingen som forstar vad jag sager, o hon pa andra sidan disken forsoker forklara saker for mig...

tiden spinner pa o till slut ger hon upp pa att forsoka fa mig att fatta och hamtar en kollega som tar over. denna kollega kan iaf basic och forklarar hitan o ditan... men till slut loste sig aven det, ska hamta ut passet med visum nasta torsdag efter 3 i nagoya om nagon vill leka med mig dar? well, tar mitt pick o pack o drar ivag till kyoto, ser lite pa silvertemplet men kanner mig mest herded like some stupid sheep, sa gar vidare till tempel no 2 o blir helt foralskad! precis som de ska vara! gammal tempel med enkla stengangar o simpel harmoni, de later av vatten o de ar inga turister... dar finner jag min harmoni o hunger.. sa jag letar reda pa mitt hostel, hittar tva trevliga idioter fran london, sprakar lite med dem, och sen gar jag pa jakt efter en ATM. jag skojjar inte, man maste planera saker som de flera timmar i forvag, lagga upp planer pa hur man ska eliminera daliga objekt och forsoka hitta jackpoten.

till en borjan foljde jag min guide bok, men efter tva nitlotter sa overvagde jag att prova ett tredje stalle de rekomenderade for internationella kort, men da sag jag ett 7/11 tvars over gatan, o gick dit istallet. och JACKPOT! nu har vi pengar i borsen igen! woho! ska dela upp i mindre delar o gomma i flera olika delar av vaskan, sa ifall nagot blir stulet eller borttappat sa finns de troligtvis kvar en eller tva andra stallen. whuppi, jag ar bast! at lite ramen pa spranget, forsta konkreta maten jag fatt idag, och de tesammans med somnbrist har gett mig en saftig huvudvark, ar enormt tacksam for medskickade huvudverkstabletter sambon! ska knarka pa for fullt ikvall..

koper ett par munkar o gar hem till hostlet lagom till att klockan blir 8pm o da sitter de redan en tjej vid datorn sa far vanta lite, o som hon babblar, o jag kan inte saga att jag gillar hennes personlighet, den ar alldeles for speedad o paklistrad, men en del samtalsamnen va ratt intressanta. avskyn kanske finns pga huvudvarken, vad vet jag?

nu ska jag inte stora er langre, men imorgon ar det planerat ett besok pa gyllene templet o sen far vi se... hittar sakert pa nagot roligt! bara min huvudvark vill slappa! mutter mutter