Good morning! Sunday morning here in Downtown Kyoto.
We just checked out of our hotel. And we are setting up our bikes.
we had to put them in rinko bags for the hotel.
today we'll be cycling from Kyoto to Osaka
first, we gotta put our bikes together.
time to get going!
we also did a bike shop tour for Kon's Cycle
there's a separate video if you want to see it
anyway, let's continue on with our ride.
Vietnamese restaurant
We're near Kyoto station area right now but time for us to say goodbye
goodbye Kyoto
bikes locked up. Time to eat!
washoku means like traditional Japanese food that's why we've got some more
traditional style food like tempura sushi and so on we haven't really eaten
breakfast yet today so I think we're gonna spoil ourselves a little bit
before today's ride all looks really good
since I saw Donna all right i'ma go with this one this is the gear
Sookie you don navigational good tones gonna go with me
this one the gear dose is sticky toe Hockey Federation toshogu means like set
and so this is beef roast steak and like tacky is like a seafood kind of like
fried thing right here all right I'm getting a hot pot let's order and choose
the right size I'll get the big size adds to and turns water this one Xuan
Xuan so she don't even have to talk to anyone you can place of all your order
here all right now we just wait food has just arrived
pretty excited for this but still gotta wait a little bit so I can cook my meat
in the soup it's heating up now I got the fire and my rice and my egg and
Tony's got her steak and khaki flag and I believe she also has some miso soup
and salad it directly must
oh oh boy she's so pop they must show great lunch stop stuffed okay wait
demo she cuddled up so we're gonna continue on with the rest of our
adventure let's get going
looks like we found the river path hopefully smooth sailing from here been
on this river path once before but it was like pitch black at night I didn't
see anything so pretty excited to see it at the daytime now bye bye Kyoto I know
it's got the turning out to be a really really nice river path so far and curved
paths are great in Japan because it's one of the quickest ways to get around
town you don't really have to worry about bridges because you can go under
the bridges like we are now you don't have to worry about traffic light so
much but one of the main problems is a lot of the river paths aren't like
really great condition for very long though usually just sort of dead-end
randomly and this path actually goes pretty much all the way from Kyoto to
Osaka there are a couple of barriers up ahead and once we get further along that
I'm aware of that we're going to experience there a bit of a pain but
you'll see them when we get to them but for now so far it's really nice here in
this area lots of people out using the path great to see as always and we're
having perfect weather today we've had a nice perfect sunny weekend so far three
days perfect weather and after like a month or two of just constant typhoons
constant rainstorms this is just a blessing and away once we check the
weather forecast and it lined up with my vacation from work just knew we needed
to do a big ride this weekend and really happy we did needed this nice vacation
if you can call 200 300 plus kilometres cycling weekend vacation
we're about 16 K into our ride so this part is looking familiar this is the
main river path that will be on for pretty much the rest of the ride and
every time I come here I kind of get a little bit lost getting to this point
but we found it no problems today that's a good sign for today
oh wow lots of people taking a break it took the Kyushu
we're gonna take a quick peek here
let's have a look inside looks like there's a bit of a rest of area you can
get some souvenirs and healthy vegetable smoothie oh wow
check out the view this is really really cool so we're gonna be cycling over that
way along this river down to Osaka and we just came from over this way it's
really cool we can get a nice view in every direction really nifty apparently
this area is really really beautiful during soccer season so in the spring
season this is all full of soccer trees so hopefully you're gonna come back here
in the spring sometime do another Osaka right
kiss keys and I could focus on over bullshit oh nice little break great to
see so many cyclists out today enjoying the nice weather anyway let's grab the
bikes and get going you've got a river about to enter the
main path oh cool shots dinger oh and here we go
my favorite thing the bike barriers there's gonna be a bunch of these along
the past let's start counting here yo number one
this road is really great because it's nice and wide to protected from cars but
we're about our twenty point five KN right now and you can see we're going
through another bike carrier unfortunately just a lot of these
Maria Antonia Nikki MA
great another one straight ahead Nadia on my machine a really unfortunate this
road is such a great road but there's just these random stretches where they
have a bunch of barriers and there's some sections that are pretty long you
can go for a while if Safety's the reason it ends up being a bit more
dangerous because like those things aren't dangerous to go through even if
you're trying to walk your bike there it's not that easy of a test to do
especially a loaded bike like ours where we have luggage and our bikes extra
heavy and you're tired I'm not a good recipe for safety really but I won't
complain because this is one of the nicest places the cycle this road is
huge and wide and can connect you straight from Kyoto to Osaka really
great and speaking of Osaka we're starting to
get the skyline in view probably not gonna show up on the GoPro but getting
pretty close probably a bit over halfway with today's ride done already thirty
two point five kN hello again my old friend
usually along the river pass here in Japan they have these athletic
facilities pretty much dominantly baseball players baseball is huge in
Japan nice to see some other sports facilities here as well too some tennis
courts and some basketball courts pretty rare in our area of Japan you don't
really see any of those in these river parks in Nagoya but great to see them
here and get some water as well and some nice bathroom stops a barbecue in you I
wonder how you find that I oh hey guess what's coming up our good old friend mr.
barrier back
this barrier actually kind of makes sense though because we've got some cars
here but it's a double barrier which is kind of whatever
so at first these barriers were pretty infrequent they weren't too often but
now we're kind of in this middle part there's just a bunch of double barrier
after double barrier after double barrier it just doesn't seem to end
we're starting to talk about our plans from what we're gonna do in Osaka so one
of the reasons we're going to Osaka rather than staying in Kyoto for the
weekend is I need to go to the American Embassy to renew my passport my passport
is out of visa stamps so I can't add pages for stamps anymore I need to get a
full new passport so we're going there to do that and tooling actually damaged
her passport water damage from our last cycle tour around Taiwan so she needs to
renew her passport as well so that's why we're both going to Osaka luckily I have
Monday off of work so it's Sunday today and we're staying the night tonight it's
actually really cheap for the hotels it's less than 5,000 yen for the night
for both of us which is really cheap by Japan standard for a private eye double
bedroom yeah so recommended advice if you want to save money get a hotel room
on Sunday night there's no one staying in hotels on those nights it looks like
we got a turn here I'll pick you all mystic I love these construction cone
things here they always have different animals at different mascots thank you
River here all right 38.5 kilometres right now maybe about 15 more K to go
unfortunately for most soccer players here there's not many good grass areas
to play soccer you got to play on some sand or dirt like this
lots of tennis facilities along this river path that's great to see
tennis is another really popular sport here Tony's never tried tennis before so
we're gonna hopefully play together sometime soon we bought her a racquet
but we haven't had time to go play yet mostly because most places you need to
reserve in advance like a month and we're not the type of people that like
to make plans a month in advance
oh-oh-oh socata here we are forty four point six
kilometers in we've just come into view of the Ola soccer skyline and looks like
we're pretty close now at the top though Oh looks like we're climbing lots of
people out on the course today this time I'm ready this is really great you don't
really get this in Nagoya where we live kind of like this line of people
commuting getting around yes it's may be a good thing not to have that much
cycling traffic where you are we're gonna change it and go along a different
river path now and cut back in towards our hotel once we get a few more
kilometres our new river companion hopefully that's
the last of the pair here sweet I wish those earlier barriers did something
like this this is totally reasonable you still need to slow down enough
alright guys we arrived at our hotel in downtown Osaka had a nice ride along the
river down from Kyoto down to Osaka today but we're gonna stop today's video
here we're gonna jump off our bikes inside to take a quick shower and get
refreshed head out later again tonight and check out some of the night
attractions nearby our hotel hopefully get some good food but we're gonna save
that for the next video so if you're interested in following along in the
rest of our evening you can check for the next video when it comes out anyway
as always thanks for watching and we'll see you next time