After going to Portugal earlier this month, I had to go to Osaka to attend a company seminar. I was required to attend the seminar to proceed to the next step in the employment process and I could not attend the seminar in Tokyo because I was in Portugal. Speaking about "good" timing.
If I have to spend more than 20.000 yen (around Rp. 2 million) to just attend the seminar, I might want to take a walk and look around too. So I met my senior there who is currently working in Osaka, and went together to Kyoto which is not so time consuming if you go from Osaka, only about 30 minutes by train. Nara is not so far too, but I just did not have enough time to go there.
Our first destination was, Kinkaku-ji or Golden Pavilion Temple (wiki). It's smaller than what I thought, but I like it. Unlike my senior, I don't think of it as just a gold-coated temple :).
Kinkaku-jiOur final destination was Kiyomizu-dera (wiki). It was already dark when we arrived but we could still enter the temple. That reminds me, shops around these temples close at around 18.00. I don't think that shops in other parts of Kyoto also close at around 18.00, but I wish the shops were still opened a little bit longer. You can also see Kyoto Tower (wiki) in the picture below (white thing in the center). Seriously though, they could have made a better design of that tower.
Kiyomizu-deraBefore I went back to Yokohama on the day after, I managed to visit Osaka Castle (wiki), the second castle (for defense) that I've visited. The view from the top of the castle was awesome, I was lucky that the weather was always clear when I was in Osaka, and Kyoto.
Osaka CastleAnother thing that interests me in Osaka Castle is this monument, which was built during World Expo '70. There are two time capsules buried under it. The first time capsule is to be opened at the beginning of each century, and the second capsule is to be opened after 5000 (five thousand, I don't mistype here) years have passed, which means in 6970. Uhhh, suddenly I remember the news of a person who buried his money in his garden but had it stolen recently.
Anyway, you may want to check this link if you are interested in this time capsule.
You can see the other pictures which I provided as a slideshow below, or you can visit my page on Picasa to see the pictures themselves. Now, I hope I could at least proceed to the next step of the employment process. Otherwise I would have to boycott the company because I have spent so much time and money for nothing. Just kidding :)
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2 comments:
Hi,
Can you please tell me what is the name of the template you are using in your blog. I am also a blog writer on blogspot.
Regards,
Avadhoot.
It was "rounders 4" at first, but I customized it myself and made it into 3 columns.
That took some time though, whew. I wrote about it here
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