Universal Studios Japan Osaka

Got rolled out of bed pretty early this morning after that late evening curry run.

The hotel has breakfast buffet loaded with western and traditional Japanese breakfast items. Without dwelling on the food too much - Japanese eggs are very tasty. Got a good view of the city from the 22nd floor of the building to boot. I saw Koshien stadium …

Wednesday 26^th – Friday 28^th September 2012

Having slept in, we decided to give the tour run by the hostel a miss and headed to the port area of the city to go to the aquarium. For all that the people went on about it being one of the biggest in Japan; honestly we weren't overly impressed as it was actually …

I ended up going to the overpriced, but fun, USJ three times - first Tracey and I went as its a "must do" and then I had to take guests too cause its "must ...

... thought the day would come.  Finding a hot piano teacher, that is. Besides having a decent nightlife Osaka is also home to Universal Studios Japan.  The rather expensive Universal Studios Japan that is.  I was going to go but it ...

... he bought more merchandise there (I don't want to know how much he spent...), and then we walked around the mall adjacent to Universal Studios for a bit. Back on the Shinkansen to Kyoto (I wanted to check out the shops at Kyoto Station a bit more...you ...

... was too much to handle!  :o)  Yesterday was an extremely action packed day which had students walking/running around Universal Studios for 10 hours!  Universal Studios was extremely packed.  I guess all Japanese students had this week ...

... (Japanese bullet train)... 100km including 2 stops takes a cool 29 minutes. Meeting up with Mario, we also have a day at Universal Studios Japan, well it wouldn´t be a trip to Japan without a theme park right? So we find ourselves in fake America land ...

... next door neighbour must have come in and out the room 10 or more times in the next hour or 2, I'm sure he was harmless but it was unsettling to say the least. We were going to Universal Studios the next day so an early start and an early night ...

We decided to take a day away from visiting the hundreds of world heritage sites in Japan and had a fun day at Universal Studios Japan. Pete was in heaven when we went on the Back to the Future ride in a Delorean (some people just never grow up!). ...

... dropped in this bar that had a live band and it was too fun. Turns out this is a local hang out for the Universal Studios Japan workers, so we met quite a few interesting people and partied until the last train! We'll definitely have to go back ...

Today we have been to Universal Studios, Osaka....it was so exciting!!! The Spider man ride was definately my favourite, I love the way Spidey jumps on your car and talks to you, it was even more amusing because he spoke in Japanese! During the rest of ...

... weeks include Kiyomizu shrine again (the autumn leaves are going to be burning in red and yellow in a couple of weeks), and perhaps the Universal Studios near Osaka. Obviously I`ll also be very much concentrating on my project as well. Roger! ...