Rainy Days in Osaka

How to Salvage a Now-Ruined Itinerary

This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium.

“This is really taking a long time…” I thought to myself while sitting on the Hashidate №1 limited express train bound for Kyoto’s Amanohashidate. Due to the heavy rains, my departure had been delayed by over an hour now. Little did I know just how bad it was though. You see, ALL of the JR trains leaving Kyoto Station (sans the unstoppable Shinkansen) had been ground…