Korea and Kyoto

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On Tuesday I'm going to Korea for two weeks, with a 2.5-day trip to Kyoto in there. Visiting estheruth who lives in the far south of Korea, and my cousin Hadas is joining me from Israel for Kyoto and about half the Korea time. May get to see japlady in Seoul as well. Korea will include Seoul, Mokpo, Jeju, and probably some other place (Gwangju maybe?). Got any tips about Kyoto or Korea, or favorite things in either place, or people you know who I might want to meet? Or people I know and don't realize are there?

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I remember when I bought a ticket from Tokyo to Takayama I asked the agent if I'd have trouble recognizing the station. He said, look at your watch - the trains are always on time. But the signs were in Romanji also. I did have trouble once on the subway which is zoned and I was in an outlying are and the maps didn't have Romanji but I figured it out.