"Steve Kramer" <steve@seatraveler.com> wrote in message

> > When you get to KIX, then you'll just ride JR's express "Haruka" going
to
> > Shin-Osaka and Kyoto directly. The express just takes 75 minutes to
Kyoto.
>
> That's wonderful if you are going to kita Osaka or downtown Kyoto. But
> not if you are going to Sakai,

Well, if you go to Sakai from KIX. Take a bus to Itami airport, from there a
plane to Narita,
then take the taxi to Tokyo, the Shinkansen to Kyoto and from there the
Haruka direction....KIX.


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