toyota

my next stop was kyoto. i didn't have motivation or time to stay there for longer, but i at least wanted to see the bamboo forest, so i decided to take a train there and then start hitchhiking from the outskirts of the city.

the area surrounding the bamboo walkway was stuffed with thousands of other sweaty tourists, but i still managed to get one or two decent pictures. i cooled off over a freezer box in a 7-11 and then made my way to the metro to get to the hitchhiking spot i had scouted out. i had to walk through the heat for another little while and then jump a fence to get into the rest stop, found some cardboard, made a sign that just said "east" and started hitchhiking. a couple of sri lankans picked me up and dropped me off at a train station in the outskirts of nagoya.

since i only had half the day for hitchhiking, it was already dark and i didn't have a place to sleep, so i scowered google maps for a while until i found a suitable public park an hours train ride away in toyota. what i didn't know was that this was actually *the* toyota, so i was quite surprised when i had to find out that half the city was a manufacturing plant without public access. i had to walk a bit longer than planned, but eventually made it to the park and went to sleep.Read more