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Osaka Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Osaka, Japan
NICK: Japaneezed English 101
... . You could be listening to an entire conversation in German and pick out all the English words; they leave them as English. However, in Japan, when I try to talk to a sales clerk in the store, I've learned to add extra vowels in the middle of my words ...
Universal Studios - Osaka
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!). ...
Toutatsu! Osaka
... Ms. Piersma's grandpa) for not updating this blog sooner. Believe it or not, the 'Net is not as easy to access in Japan as I'd thought. I'd imagined that WiFi would flow through the streets like water. Not so! We've had to rely on computers in hotel ...
T-I-doulble G-ERS
... . It happened to fall on Brittany's birthday, so we can think of it as how we celebrated her birthday in Japan. :) The Hanshin Tigers of Osaka played the Baystars from Yokohama. We bought tickets at a convenience store ticket machine a few weeks earlier. ...
Konichiwa Japan
... reserved for politicians and criminals, it is the apology bow. Now we knew the bowing protocol, it was time to see real Japan. Osaka is the third largest city, they do a lot of laughing down here as they are famous for their humour, seafood and ...
No, that is not the same thing as raw fish!
... we were unable to get tickets due to a potent combination of our own inability to plan ahead and the illegality of scalping in Japan. Defeated, we headed back to the train station. Along the way, we stopped into a Korean restaurant for dinner. ...
Kansai quickly!
Again another quick stopover. A few emails to folk to let them know we were back, then slept the whole flight back to Haneda ...
There are many fish in the sea...
... , pour ceux qui n'ont pas été voir mes albums photos uploadés sur Facebook, les utres doivent savoir, ça a été donc le Kaiyukan d'Osaka (l'aquarium géant), le Tempozan (la plus grande roue du Monde), Kujo pour l'Osaka Dome et un tout petit tour ...
Osaka
Bullet train to Osaka. Since it was my last bullet train, and my last long distance rail journey in Japan, I treated myself to a very Japanese lunch of a rather expensive ekiben (eki bento - train lunchbox) and a large Asahi. The ekiben (all 1300 yen of ...
Arrival
At 3:30 pm in Osaka and 2:30 a.m. in Knoxville, we arrived in Japan. We were greeted at the aiport by Tamami, our tour guide, and Mr. Suginaga, a Panasonic representative. The airport is on a man made island and was originally 18 feet above sea level. ...
The Incredible evil egg!
... long!) The 75 cents spent and 3 prizes where usually left behind as a sacrifice to the egg machine Gods. Well here in Japan these machines are super popular with Japanese kids. When I saw my first egg machine here I was bombarded with nostalgic memories ...
Osaka, it's your turn bitch!
... 'hui, c'est le changement! Dès qu'on devient habitué à certaines choses, on change tout. Enfin presque!.. Tokyo ----> Osaka J'avais vu beaucoup de facettes de Tokyo, j'avais vu la face moderne avec Shibuya et Akihabara. Le coté traditionnel avec le ...
A Day with Emma & her Mom
A week or so ago, Jack and I met up with our friend Emma and her Mom for a tour of Osaka. Emma had mentioned an Udon place we should try, and the day took shape from there. They showed us the Sumiyoshi shrine, which we had visited before but not on a ...
Siberia through a lens (Siberia Pics)
No story and not many pics? Not much to say other then it was COLD! "I wish the world was flat like the old days then I could travel just by folding a map no more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways there'd be no distance that can hold us ...
Somewhere over the Pacific
Why oh why didn't we try to get a proper stopover in Japan?! (no doubt there was a ...
2 days in Osaka
There’s a Japanese saying they use to describe Osaka which translates to something like, ‘falling down from eating’. Osakites love their food and they love to party. The amount of restaurant and bar lined streets you can find in ...
Shanghai, Shanghai Ferry, Osaka and Nara
... worse the later it got. boooooo. What did lift my spirits though was later that night when we finally reached the Bay of Japan, going through a small gap between two of the main islands with big city lights lighting up the night sky on either side ...
Osaka - Day 1
... sleep on board. We had luck that the seat next to us was occupied by Japanese women who shared some knowledge about life in Japan. I also used this opportunity to try some Japanese words I have learnt at home. That was really funny. At 8.25am Osaka local ...
Osaka and Karaoke
... Tokyo in Urban development and a great central location for jumping on the train to other Kansai cities. Our first night in Osaka, Shiloh took us to a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant. When you see something you like, you grab the plate, eat ...
Ah! Familar places and faces.
... her a license. A little while later we figured out that she had only hit one cone! Phew! So to see her driving in Japan was a hoot. She actually just bought the car a few days prior. We entered the address to the restaurant where my friend was ...
Enter Osaka
Arrive in Osaka to stay one night in a capsule hotel and experience the night life at Zion - an African run dub reggae night with phat dancehall ...
Reunion At Last !
... the watchful eyes of the capricious samurai warriors. There was even an extravagant small-scale figurine representation of Japan's last civil war, known as The Osaka Summer War of 1614, that forever changed the political climate of the country. After the ...
Baseball, Shopping and big cities!
Osaka was so cool, we went twice! We saw a baseball game - and we think Japanese fans are way more enthusiastic than Seattle fans. Most were dressed up in team jerseys, had plastic bats, some had face paint, and everyone cheered like crazy ...
Leaving Osaka
Hallo zusammen, nach sieben Naechten in Osaka geht es nun weiter, next stop ist Nagoya. Auf meinen Aprilscherz ist anscheinend niemand reingefallen, nun ja, leider hatte ich auch keine guten Fotos:-) Gruss Ralf P.S. Hier ein Artikel von ...
Osaka - Seas of Streets
... ;Try to picture a densely packed outdoor mall... it was a bit like that. What I took away from the experience was that Osaka had many places which invited you wander the city for enjoyment (especially if you like to people-watch). There was ...
Himeji Hanami Festival
... are many instances to prove it false) BUT my rare meetings with these gals really bring a smile to my face, much laughter all the way from my gut, and a cure to any existing case of homesickness or current misery about work/life/Japan. ...
FISH GOTTA SWIM
Fish gotta swim(birds gotta fly)and Steve has to see them, if he is snorkelling or visiting an aquarium. An Osaka has a great aquarium! Saw playful mini otters and playful full size otters. Man, they do seem to be having fun. Saw a ...
Identify This
Thought we'd post some pictures of local products to see if any of you may have better luck at figuring out what they are than we have! Enjoy! In other news, we received a really sweet letter from a man at our Ward Office. The Ward Office is a ...