In Kyoto

This is Adam. Just a quick update while we're waiting for restaurants to open. (Bob's hungry, and he's pressuring us to go get dinner.)

Spent the early morning watching kids' shows, including Power Rangers. Fairly surreal, but ultimately not that different from the American version. Then we finally left the hostel--took a bus from Kawaguchiko to a small city called Mishima, and from there took the Shinkansen (bullet train) here to Kyoto. At that point we walked the mile or so to the hostel. The problem is that Bob entered the data for the hostel's location off of Google, and he was about 500 feet off. This wouldn't be a problem in any sane country, that used real street names and addresses. Japan seems to scoff at this idea...streets and addresses are for weak occidentals. Only some streets here are named, and they're not exactly good at displaying their addresses on the street (when the building even has a number). But we found it, after a bit of wandering around.

We're in another Japanese-style room. Joy of joys, this one doesn't have the fishy smell. (Steve thinks it was more like rotting plants than fish.) It's smaller than the last one, and we have a shared-bathroom situation. Should be fine, though.

Steve and Bob were looking at maps, deciding our itinerary, while I was trying to do some work. (My bosses for my summer job are a little annoyed at me right now, even though we agreed months ago that I would be on vacation right now.) Apparently we're close to the old red light district, which is more touristy and less red-lighty these days.

We're unsure what our schedule is going to be at this point. We might head back to Tokyo or Narita a day early, just to make sure we make it onto our flight. I think we're going to decide what we're doing over dinner.