Day 6 of University Graduation Trip, Tokyo on May 5, 2017

May 5, 2017

Sixth day of our graduation trip in Japan.
After yesterday's Digimon Tour, today we went back to our roaming of the city of Tokyo. We ended up visiting Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, Akihabara, Sensō-ji Temple, Sky Tree (didn't go up there), Ginza and Shibuya.

Breakfast
Breakfast
Cold noodles from convenience store.

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Day 5 of University Graduation Trip, Digimon Tour of Tokyo on May 4, 2017

May 4, 2017

Fifth day of our graduation trip in Japan.
The friends that were staying in the same apartment with me in Tokyo all expressed that they weren't very much into Japanese animations. After some brief discussions we found that our common ground was only "Digimon Adventure", so we decided to carry out a "Digimon Tour" of Hikarigaoka and Odaiba.

Shinjuku Street
Shinjuku Street

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Day 3 of University Graduation Trip, Kyoto on May 2, 2017

May 2, 2017

Third day of our graduation trip in Japan.
The plan of the day was to visit the historic Japanese city of Kyoto. Among the sites to see were Fushimi Inari Taisha, Kiyomizu-dera, Kinkaku-ji. There was so many to see in Kyoto that we knew in advance we won't be able to cover them all, so we just took our time touring the city.

Breakfast
Breakfast
Frozen food from convenience store. I studied for very long how to heat this up, the result was that I should put this directly on stove (surprise that the tin foil won't burn through).

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Day 2 of University Graduation Trip, Osaka on May 1, 2017

May 1, 2017

Second day of our graduation trip in Japan.
The plan of the day was to visit the sights in Osaka City, returning to our apartment for a party dinner, followed by Japanese-styled spa in the evening.

Since we won't be travelling much in Osaka City, my friends generally got up late today.

Streets of OsakaStreets of Osaka
Streets of Osaka

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Day 0 of University Graduation Trip, Osaka on April 29, 2017

April 29, 2017

Despite that I mentioned in the last post, that the immigration lines at Osaka Kansai Airport were ridiculous line, so it was half past 8 in the evening when we reached our Airbnb apartment near Kuromon Ichiba Market. But since we were university students and this was still early in the night for us, so we decided to take a walk in the surroundings and there came this post of the 0-th day of our Japan trip.

Namba Streets
Namba Streets

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Flight Log of All Nippon Airways Flight 980 from Beijing to Osaka Kansai on April 29th, 2017

April 29, 2017

Chinese Labor Day Holiday in May, 2017. After discussions with my undergraduate classmates, we decided that this should be the time for our graduation trip, and we chose Japan as our destination.
During the reservation process, we found that All Nippon Airways (ANA) could offer us a relatively cheap Japan domestic legs in its return tickets, so we chose an itinerary of Beijing - Osaka - Tokyo - Beijing with ANA, the first leg of which is NH980 from Beijing to Osaka.

Interior of Beijing Airport T3
Interior of Beijing Airport T3

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Flight Log of China Eastern Airlines Flight 718 / 5186 from Chicago O'Hare to Beijing via Shanghai on April 10/11th, 2017

April 11, 2017

5 nights, some tourist sites, a few meetings with friends and countless Pokemons later, I was on my return trip to Beijing on April 10th.

Check-in Counters at Chicago O'Hare Airport T4
Check-in Counters at Chicago O'Hare Airport T4
Those national flags should represent destinations from Chicago O'Hare. Just like any other US airport, the depth of the check-in areas were rather short here. By the way, shouldn't Chicago's practice of assigning each airline a fixed counter a waste of departure hall counters? (Especially for airlines like China Eastern that operated on sub-daily basis.)

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