







In Autumn 2016, I solely visited Japan for the second times. This journey lasted 10 days to travel in Kansai and Gifu zone. I experienced and gained lots of interesting and touching moments and it was enough to create this Journal.

I took a flight from Bangkok, where is my hometown, to Kansai International Airport by Thai Airways. It took approximately 5 hours. I was going to arrive at the airport around 6 p.m. Then, headed to Kyoto, where my first resident located also first place to start my journey. The check in time of guesthouse where I stayed closed at 9 p.m. so I needed to be on schedule for every step.









The flight boarding delayed almost 20 minutes but departed and arrived on time. I rushed to get off the airplane to go through the immigration. The immigration zone was full of people that made me more worried. However, due to the excellent management of Japanese immigration, I could finish the immigration process more quickly as I expected. The custom process was nice too. The custom officer politely questioned me about what I planned to do in Japan. I knew it was the interrogation but they did friendly like they were welcoming the visitors not as same as some countries that their staffs acted like the visitors came to annoy them.





After completed the custom process, I was officially allowed to travel in Japan.

I carried my heavy backpack and walked fast to JR ticket office to purchase ICOCA card and Haruka ticket.





ICOCA card is the prepaid card which can be used for any transportation in Japan, also for making a payment at minimarts such as 7-11, Family Mart.





Haruka ticket is a ticket for riding Haruka train to Osaka city center and Kyoto.





If buying both of them together, the discount of Haruka ticket will be provided.





I took the 7.16 Haruka train to Kyoto. It took 1.20 hrs. so I would arrive at 8.32 p.m. During the train to Kyoto, I connected free wifi in the train to send e-mail to the guesthouse to inform them that I was on the way and asked them to wait for me. They replied fast to tell me that they acknowledged and were waiting for me.





I arrived at Kyoto station where I needed to change to subway to Gojo station, one stop from Kyoto station. Then, I walked to find the guesthouse according to the map I printed before I came here. It was not difficult to find this guesthouse. This guesthouse’s name was Jiyujin. When I arrived, two Japanese girls were waiting for welcoming me. They were so friendly and nicely provided me the information of the guesthouse.













I got a private single room which was good enough for me. The shared toilets and shower rooms were clean. There were not many rooms in this guesthouse so it was quiet and comfortable to stay.





At that time, it was late to go out so grabbing food and drinks from 7-11, and eating in the kitchen of the guesthouse were nice enough and so chill. I met a Korean girl who came into the kitchen after me. I tried to talk to her but we had language barrier. She tried to speak English to me even if she could not speak well and was shy to do it.













Today, I had done the perfect timing organization even if it made me worried all the way I came here but I felt fun with it, and I was such good start. I was also curtained that I would be going to have fun times in the remaining days of my journey.







