When I got to the bus station in Kyoto it was very cold, it felt like 5°C. I wrapped myself in a blanket. Our bus was leaving at 10pm. I was travelling with the company Willerexpress and the ticket costed 4650 yen. The journey was comfortable but it was hot inside the bus. I managed to sleep some hours. We got to the Ikebukuro sunshine bus terminal at 7.45am. We had breakfast in a local restaurant, where we ordered noodles sup with egg and spinach and pieces of fried cheese. Then we went to my host's place in Asakusa to put my suitcase. The weather was sunny and warmer than in Kyoto, it was around 18°C. My host bought sweets that were made of red beans and we sat close to the temple and ate them. Afterwards my host took me to the Ueno park with a totem pole and a horse statue. We visited a buddhist cemetary and a street called Rue des arts. My host wanted to show me a modern place in Tokyo and he took me to the Shinjuku station, but we didn't see anything interesting there.
In the afternoon we went to the Hamarikyu gardens which is an amazing place with a pond and a teahouse.

We returned to my host's place in the evening. I was very tired and I slept around one hour before we went to have dinner in a restaurant. The table had a hotplate and my host prepared a traditional food monjayaki and okonomiyaki. Monjayaki is a pan-fried batter with various ingredients. Okonomiyaki is a Japanese savoury pancake. 

I had to go to the Haneda airport after dinner because my flight was departing shortly after midnight. The flight was good, I had a conversation with a Japanese guy sitting next to me and I watched a movie called Her, which I found quite boring and I fell asleep while watching it. We got to Paris around 6am and it was still dark outside. My friend Thomas who hosted me in Paris in April 2012 picked me up at the airport and he took me by car to visit Paris. We stopped at Champs Élysées firstly where we could see Christmas decorations and then we went to my friend's flat to rest for a while. After the sunrise we went to the Notre Dame. It was my first time to visit Paris in autumn because I always used to go there in spring or summer. I didn't have any warm clothes so I had to borrow my host's jacket.

We walked for some time in the center of Paris and then we had a breakfast in the Cafe St. Regis. We ate soft-boiled eggs with bread and an omelette with vegetables. After breakfast we went to the Sacré Coeur and then to the airport.  

I got to Prague in the afternoon around 3 pm on 22nd November 2014. I was tired after a hectic trip but it was a very exciting experience.

I went to meet a couchsurfer in Uji on Tuesday 18th November. I spent more than one hour travelling by train. It was a sunny day and I had to wait at the train station until the couchsurfer came. He was around 56 years old, he was riding a bike and I had to walk next to him. After 15 minutes walking we got to his flat, which was quite messy. I drank one tea and I left because I wanted to visit Kyoto. I hitchhiked to the train station where I ate sushi and I got a map of Kyoto. It was already late afternoon and it was getting dark so I had to hitchhike back to Kayashima. When I got there I went to a local shop with food, I ate soup with noodles, egg and some kind of jelly made from a special kind of potato. Then I went to my host and he also cooked soup with noodles, so we had dinner together and we talked about living in Japan.
The following day I moved to another host in Kyoto. He was 22 years old student and he lived in the center of the town. I met him at noon and we went to his home to put a suitcase. He had to work in the afternoon so I went to visit Kyoto by myself. The daily bus pass costed 500 yen. I saw many people wearing kimono in Kyoto, not only women but also men. Firstly I went to Tofukuji which is a buddhist temple and then I walked to Heian shrine which was nearby.

Then I took a bus to the buddhist temple Kiyomizu dera. I met a Japanese couple there and we walked up the hill together and we took many photos. We saw a geisha on our way. It was the only geisha I met in Japan.

The path was surrounded by many shops with traditional Japanese sweets, there was free tasting so I ate quite a lot of them and also I drank free green tea. We got on the top of the hill when it was almost sunset, there were many people taking photos and admiring red leaves. There was also some fortune-telling, my Japanese friends tried it. Then they went to a Silver pavilion and I went to a Toji temple. It was already dark when I got there, I took some photos and then I had to take a bus to the train station where I also took photos of the Kyoto tower. When I got to my host we went to have dinner in a local restaurant, I had to borrow his clothes because it was very cold. I had miso soup, rice, fried chicken and vegetables and it costed around 800 yen. I put soya sauce on the rice but my friend told me not to do that because only homeless people in Japan used to do that. We had a conversation about Japan, my friend told me it was a westernized country nowadays. He said that it was rude to leave a tip in a restaurant in Japan because people are paid for their job and they considered it offensive if somebody gave them money. When we got to his home we drank some alcohol with little pieces of gold and then we drank also plum liquor. My friend had a typical Japanese heating called kotatsu which is a wooden table covered by a blanket. When I went to sleep I was so cold that I had to sleep under the heating.
The following day I went to the Fushimi Inari-Taisha shrine. I walked on the top and I took many photos there.

Afterwards I went to the Hongan-ji temple. Then I took a bus to Arashiyama where I went to a bamboo forest firstly. I met Japanese girls there dressed in beautiful kimonos and I asked them to take photos with me.

There were also many shops with free tasting sweets in Arashiyama. I went to visit the Tenryu-ji temple and then also the Daikaku-ji temple. Then I took a bus to my host and we went to have dinner in a restaurant. I had fried oysters with rice and it costed around 900 yen. Then I had to go to a train station to catch my bus to Tokyo.