no need to apologize, you've been a great help and I'm enjoying myself reading about your experience (=・ω・=)
it's ok if icoca doesn't cover shinkansen, just covering everything else is great and I'm relieved to know that. from the places you mentioned, we planned on visiting the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest, Kinkakuji and Gion Street but everything else seems amazing! I really want to see miko and geiko as well ヾ(☆▽☆) it seems that the event/festival on Fushimi Inari Taisha was a lot of fun, I'm looking at some pictures and it's so beautiful, we'll have to visit this shrine somehow! making your own pottery sounds great too, but I'm pretty sure I'd do a poor job U_U I'm so clumsy!!!
I can see you really had a great time there, thanks so much again! I've sent you a private message and I hope we can keep on talking (≧∀≦)
lol that's great! I don't know anyone from Japan either, but I've only met nice fujoshi online (=・ω・=) good luck and have fun!! (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
have you ever traveled to Japan? did you make a list with all the titles you wanted to get? did you overspend your yaoi budget? or would you rather buy manga in your own country/online?