ITS OCTOBER!
That means its time for a trip to Nikko to see Adryn. Which means figuring out the gosh darned shinkansen. And how unfair it is I go almost the entire journey on the Tokaido shinkansen and then for two stops have to be on the Tohoku shinkansen which has trains that I completely don't understand. I'm hoping the JR people will just, figure it out and put me on a train that gets me to Utsunomiya. Because I'm already having some trouble with the route to Kyoto-eki, which includes me getting from one stop I know, to another I don't, using a line that I can't find the name of. This may require some experimentation. Glories of the Japanese train system. So many trains, so little time. taking the 2:30 shinkansen should give me a half hour cushion, but lord knows I'll manage to just miss it or something, what happens when you miss your shinkansen? Do you get on the next one? Or are you just screwed?

So many questions that need answering. So little time. But I'll have to buy the train tickets soon, like maybe tommorow soon.

Eek.