Backtracking final part

Forgot about time and everything, just writing makes me totally lost.

*Day 8
Up early taking the local tram to Miyajima-guchi and ferry to the Miyajima
island. Visited the famous Itsukushima-shrine where the even more famous "floating torii gate" was located. It was still low tide when I got there but it looked like it was floating on the water. Really beautiful. *Teary eyes*
Headed for the top of the mountain by the ropeway. It is like going into peasoup, couldn't see a thing. At top there where monkeys that were said to take stuff from your bag if you weren't careful. Took me several hours hiking around the moutain and on the way I found an awfully scary shrine that looked quite abandoned.
Returned back to Hiroshima and ate some okonomiyaki at a local restaurant, though I must say it is pretty hard to eat it (since I am deadly scared of being burned I wouldn't dare eating with this little metal pan thing they gave me...). Found one of the Book Off (second hand books, etc) stores where they had loads of used manga too.

*Day 9
Had to move from my original "bedroom" to the livingroom because of some overbooking at WFC. Didn't actually mind but the bag was quite heavy dragging down there...
Headed off toward the Peace Park and the Peace Museum. The museum was quite an interesting and horrible experience at the same time. They had actual peices of bricks and parts of buildings there from the time the bomb exploded back in 1945, which made it really creepy and sad too.

*Day 10
Up very early to pack my bag and have some breakfast. Then I packed the overload of manga into a box I brought at the post office. Then I courageously managed to take the box to the post office (about a 15-20 minutes walk) and got it mailed by surface mail (it weighed around 10 kilograms). Headed back to WFC for my and checking out. Took the regular shinkansen to Shin-Osaka and managed to find the hotel really easy after taking the loop line to Shin-Imamiya. Took a hike downtown and rented a movie (random Doraemon movie) from the front desk of the hotel (movie rental was free).

*Day 11
Headed down for some breakfast (two pieces of bread and tea... what the...?!). Took a local train to Nara and hiked around the town area and surroundings looking for temples and sightseeing spots. There were a lot of deers in Nara and I think the town is famous for having them strolling all over there. Visited the Todaiji temple (lots of schoolchildren visiting too) and then visited the Kasuga Taisha shrine. After these interesting sights it was staight towards Kobe (a city I didn't get really fond of however..).

*Day 12
Wents by train early to Himeji castle west of Osaka, which should be one of the castles that are not replicas. Went around in- and outside of castle and visited a nice Japanese-themed garden near the castle grounds. Headed towards Kyoto by shinkansen (at least I hoped to see at least something of Kyoto before going back home). Managed to find the headquarters of Nintendo (which was not open for the public to visit however). Visited the legendary Inari (something) shrine which had these even more legendary 1000 torii gates.
Took a hike for a while through these tunnels of gates then headed back to Osaka when it got too dark to see anything interesting.

*Day 13
Decided to take an allday sightseeing tour in Osaka. Visited the Floating Garden Observatory (the observation floor located is around 170 meters above ground). Quite a nice view you got from up there. Founda a Pokemon Center (a shop that sells pure Pokemon goods) and met a nice german guy who had been living in Japan for around five years. Visited some Book Off stores and headed back after some more walking downtown.

*Day 14
Woke up with rainy and windy weather outside. Took a limited express to Kansai Airport which is actually located on a manmade island a couple of kilometers southwest of Osaka. At the airport there was a place called Sky View where you can try a real "flight simulator" or "air traffic control simulator". After several hours at the airport I decided to head back to Osaka again to pack my things for tomorrows check out of the hotel. Also bought some yoghurt and juice for tomorrow morning's breakfast. Watched another movie at the room (Highlander 2).

*Day 15
Woke up early again, ate my breakfast, checked out and then headed for Shin-Osaka station. Took a shinkansen to Tokyo station (took around 2,5 hours of travel time) and managed to get to Asakusa subway station. The guest house called Khaosan Tokyo was just about 100 meters from there. Went looking for somewhere to eat dinner and bought some "ingredients" for tomorrow's breakfast.

Period. Finally I managed to catch up. Tonight I will keep on writing more often so I wont have to do backtracking again.

See ya'ps