worst day so far -.-

Well, it's like 2pm right now, and I'm sitting back at the hostel. Not cause I'm bored, or cause there wouldn't be anything else to do either, but because really everything today seems to go wrong... It starts with me missing the train to Kyoto. No big deal one would think, afterall there's a ton of trains going that way. So half an hour late I arrive there, and like the very moment I step out from the train station to the big map that greets you 2 things happen. First off I get surrounded by swedes who look at the map and start discussing where they'll go with their huge bags. Somehow they miss my very obvious fjällräven backpack and don't start talking to me so I make my escape from that group, and at that very moment the second thing happens, it starts raining. Just great, the only thing I have no alternative day for, which is my visit to Kyoto, and it rains. Yesterday when I visited the museum the weather was great, you could run around in a tshirt and enjoy weather akin to late spring or early summer in Finland. Now, when I'm not going inside but planning on doing lots of wandering to temples etc it starts raining.

While the rain builds up I check the situation, there's aparently no 100 yen shop at the station square, another thing going wrong there, so I end up in the closest am/pm, the obvious and very japanese umbrella with the clear plastic ends up costing 525 yen instead of the 100 yen it'd cost in the 100 yen shop. The sucking of the day continues after that too... I walk along the main road, and soon enough I'm at my first point of intrest, the main shrine of the shin buddhists in Japan, and incidentally one of the largest wooden buildings in the world. Is it there, is it gone? Who knows, aparently they are renovating it, so there's a huge white building that has been built around it. Go me... You can't really see anything, although the english 2 page booklet/brochure that they have in the information does show a picture of it. Atleast the smaller building next to the main house is open and not built under a humongous white superstructure... So I take out the camera only to realise that I've not charged the battery and it's almost empty. Mind you, the D40 is an awesome camera, the battery is the latest in technology and I can easily do 7-800 shots with one load, in fact it's so good you tend to forget to charge it now and then. After my 2 gigs of sumo shots there's not much you can do then when it's empty and I'm in a grey and miserable Kyoto where the rain just keeps getting worse.

Not giving up yet, I decide to atleast do some moer walking, obviously there must be other things to see which aren't under construction right now. So I go off to the next park, and indeed it's closed. The only thing that seems to be open is the insane amount of shops selling buddhist items like those prayerbead things and small shrines for the home, perhaps not the best shopping items for a tourist like me, athough it'd prolly make for a good story with customs... Anyways, there's not even a good food place around so I just gave up, and came back to the guesthouse. Since it's the last day in Osaka area anyways I figure I can do some uploading, editing, downloading and planning of the last couple days in Tokyo. Assuming the weather doesn't continue like this but improves I should be able to make a final assault on Harajuku tomorrow, after I've checked in at the new hotel in Tokyo. It seems some swedes who my mate down in Tokyo knows are also coming in from Stockholm tomorrow so chances are we'll be meeting up somewhere at some point, Tokyo ftw.