First week in Japan

The trip with Japanese Airlines was even more pleasant than I expected. After waiting 3 hours at CDG airport it turned out that I was upgraded from Economy to Business class. The person sitting right next to me was a Japanese man, who lives in Warsaw. Obviously we've exchanged the visit cards. While having not only an interesting trip companion, but also a lot of space for legs and TV with option of watching any movie I wanted at any time those 12 hours of trip did not matter at all! The main airport of Nagoya is located on an island so it was quite a strange feeling to have water all around while landing. As soon as I gave back all the forbidden products to the customs officer, I went directly to the arrivals hall where my dear Daniel-San was waiting for me.
My first impression of Japan is that it reminds me of Disneyland, where everybody is nice (except foreigners who are the black characters), the city is clean, the food looks strange but tastes good and the whole surrounding is very colorful. On the 21st of August , arrival's day, afternoon I've discovered that in Japan there are so called '100 yen' shops, tried real udon soup, found out that it's almost impossible to pay with credit card anywhere in Japan and met Cesar who is Daniel's Panamian friend from the Japanese classes.

Saturday was the day of exploring such areas of Nagoya as Osu Kannon, Sakae and Nagoya Dome. We started from Osu Kannon where the bazaar mixes with temples.

Sakae turned out to be Nagoya's downtown with skyscrapers, expensive shops and entertainment.

The place that I was most looking forward to visit on that day was Nagoya Dome, which is the field of Nagoya's most famous baseball team - The Dragons.

Sunday was a day of discovering Kyoto. I couldn't wait to see Geisha-style dressed girls.

On Monday we went check out the Himeji castle the most famous one of Japan.

As one of the best ways of discovering cities is by bike, on Tuesday we borrowed a second bike from Cesar and went on a very long ride around Nagoya.

Wednesday was a day of visiting Iga, where the Ninja's village is located.

I'm having great time and it would be pointless to waste it on writing posts every day.
I've written this one for my friends who are looking forward to any news from me! I'll create more posts with detailed descriptions of my Japanese adventures after I get back to Poland.

(This is one of over 30 posts, which I accidentally deleted one day in January. Luckily, I was able to recover them thanks to the backup done by DanielSan! It's a pity that the comments are gone but someting is better than nothing.)