Eva Air are one of the best airlines on earth.

One of the best lar. I always flew with them, because Taiwanese people likes to go Japan, so EVA got intensive route to Japan. Almost all major & secondary cities airport which other airlines didn't offer. Plus one day almost got 5-7 flight to Tokyo / Kansai.

This also depends you got any flight loyalty program or not? Like I am Star Alliance regular flyer, So ANA are my main airlines of choice, 2nd option was EVA & my 3rd backup are SIA. SIA are only airlines offer from Singapore (nearest to Malaysia) direct flight to Fukuoka & Nagoya (Centrair)

BTW, had to try search for Philippines Airlines / Vietnam Airlines, usually they are cheaper than EVA. If you can affort EVA price, you can had a look on EVA biggest rival which is Starlux. In Taiwan currently the best of the best are Starlux, 2nd was EVA & 3rd was China Airlines.

Starlux economy class meal = business class meal in 99% airlines. Mama mia!!  They got even more option to pre-booked from web. all 5 star hotel level of meal.

How about these private arrangement on klook? About RM360+/-

Knowing airasia i wouldnt really wanna take my chances with trains.

I want to play devil's advocate here abit just to keep discussions up. I liked kyoto but those sights were not as wow as i thought. I was like, that's it huh? 2 days is enough for me (i planned 3 days including almost 0.75day fot nara trip). Dont need to go everyone of them. After awhile, the temple, garden or shrine is same same. Can even factor in 0.5 day go nara by giving up some stuff in kyoto itself. But this is purely my view la. Dont get me wrong, still find kyoto interesting... and i generally like to keep my itinerary more spacious nowadays (old liao) even though i believe can do with abit of less time by skipping some stops. Hahaha.