It was sunny and warm during my last day in Hong Kong. I would have liked to stay there longer but my flight was departing around noon so I had to get to the airport around 10am. I had a wonderful view from the plane on Hong Kong. We landed in Osaka around 5.30pm on 15th November and I saw a sunset from the plane. I had to get to my host in Kayashima and it was a long way from the airport, I spent 2 hours travelling. I got in the train at the airport and I had to change at Kyobashi. There was a Japanese girl sitting next to me, she didn't speak English but she had a translator in her phone. She asked me where I was going and then she accompanied me to Kayashima. It was already quite cold in the evening and I didn't bring any warm clothes so she went to a shop and bought a hot coffee for me. I don't like coffee but I warmed up my hands at least. Then she called my host and he came to pick me up at the station. His house was around 15 minutes far by walking from Kayashima. There was a street with lanterns and I ate takoyaki there. Takoyaki are balls made of wheat flour and octopus sprinkled with seaweed and dried fish. My host was a Chinese guy who had been living in Japan 8 years. It was cold in Osaka and people in Japan usually don't use heating at home so I was freezing during my last week in Japan.
My host was busy on Sunday and I left his home in the morning to visit Osaka castle. I got lost on my way to Kayashima and I asked the way some people who I met but most of them didn't speak English. I walked along the motorway and there was a local restaurant where I went to have a lunch. I bought miso soup, chicken and rice for 550 yen. I was already so frustrated for not being able to find a way to the metro station that I decided to hitchhike. After 20 minutes of waiting I was picked up by an elderly couple who took me directly to the Osaka castle. I spent some hours there, it was sunny and around 16°C, but it warm only around noon and after 3pm it started to get colder quickly.

 
When I left the castle I bought milk tea and some chocolate biscuits in a shop and then I walked around the city. Osaka is a modern and industrial city with not many places to visit. I was getting cold and I went to a shopping mall and then I returned to Kayashima. I bought takoyaki again and I met my host. I went to sleep around midnight.
I woke up after 9am on Monday and I went to Nara. It was cloudy whole day. I walked to the motorway again and I hitchhiked, A guy picked me up soon and he dropped me at a petrol station. I waited around half an hour there until two women stopped. They were mother and daugther and they took me to Ikoma which is a city located close to Nara. I took train and I got to Nara around 2pm. I went to a Kofukuji temple firstly and then I walked in the Nara park with the fallow deer.

There were many tourists and also Japanese people in the park, I asked them to take photos of me. Many people admired colorful leaves (koyo in Japanese). It was a spectacular view. 

I went to visit Todaiji temple with the big statue of Buddha. When I finished visiting it was 4pm and it was getting dark already.

I still managed to do some sightseeing but it was getting dark quickly and I had to go back to Osaka. I hitchhiked again but I had no luck firstly, it was dark and nobody stopped for half an hour. Then I met two women from Osaka who were also sightseeing in Nara, they picked me up and they told me we were going to see more places. We were driving in the dark but we got lost on some hill and we had to return. We stopped in a shop and they bought me milk tea and sushi and then they invited me for dinner and we ate ramen noodles in a restaurant. They were so kind with me that they took me directly to Kayashima. I was very lucky to meet many helpful people during my journey.