I noticed this hostel has some pretty high tech stuff. There’s a HDTV with a satellite conditional access card inside it, which means no need for a separate satellite box. The wireless routers use 802.11n, which is more than my computer can handle. Japan has passed me up again! I did some speed tests connected directly using Ethernet though. Speed testing to some local Japan servers I get 31Mbps and 57Mbps. How about something international and practical? I can get about 17Mbps sustained when not using wireless with my news-server located in the USA. So 100Mbps Internet in Japan doesn’t look like a myth, I’ve seen it myself! (For comparison, the fastest in Michigan is 8Mbps.)
I headed off to see some of the important historical sights in the morning. I headed to Kiyomizu-dera first, which is a temple with a nice view of the city. I also stopped by Chion-in which had some huge wooden buildings. There were a bunch of others I walked by, but not all were labeled in English, so it was kind of confusing.
Then around noon I was walking on the sidewalk to some more places when out of no where an insect flies up to my face and stings me right below my eye! I didn’t see it more than a split second, but I think it was colored red. Just some flapping wings in front of my eye and then a lot of pain. I’m wearing shoes, long pants, long sleeve shirt, but it goes right for the face! I don’t think I’m allergic to any insects, but I was having a rough time and decided to get back to my room. So now my face is sore and starting to swell up and by tomorrow I don’t know if I’ll be able to see out of my one eye. On top of this, I think I was starting to get sick before this happened. So I cut today short, but on the bright side I was able to catch up typing my log.