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Day 4: Osaka Bay Tempozan, and coffee difficulties
Another start to the day, another unorthodox toyoko inn breakfast. Today's offering was tiny sausages (only a few centimeters in length), cold pasta salad, croissants, bread rolls and salad. Another very quiet day today, with not much planned.
All in all, Osaka isn't a great place to spend much time on a Japanese holiday. I'd recommend seeing Dotombori at night like we did last night. And do so on a Friday or a Saturday night when it is ...
Lebenszeichen
... gut und die Preise günstig. UND das Personal ist wahnsinnig nett (allerdings hab ich mir da nichts anderes erwartet, in diesem Land).
Danach ging's wieder im Mannerschnitten-Bus los zum Stadt(?!)amt, wo wir unsere Krankenversicherungsunterlagen und ein Dokument, mit dem wir unsere Alien Registration Card (ich bin mir mittlerweile nicht mehr sicher, ob das auch wirklich so heißt) bekommen.
Als das erledigt war, fuhr ich wieder nach Namba, wo ich mich wieder mit ...
Search and Rescue
... I'm not sure he understood, or believed) and hung up. After a few more stops and many tries of asking directions from people, who were very helpful and kind but unfortunately did not happen to be English speakers, we were about to give up. We went back to the train station and looked at a map there.
At this point, what happened seems to be a familiar ending to a frustrating search in Japan. Someone came along, read our lost faces, ...
Osaka - puffy jacket day!!!
... including drinks. Once you had selected all that you wanted, you clicked on “confirm order” and away it went. No waitress to deal with. Within a short time, food and drinks started coming. You could even check back to see what you had ordered, how much your total bill was and how much per person. The Japanese menu even had pictures of the food. Zanetti’s (a cafe in Mitchelton where we live) could learn a thing or two ...
Turning Japanese
... jumped on the train heading west – destination: Hemeji. My old college friend, "Tommy" (not his real name) met me at the train station, and took me to his favorite Yakitori restaurant where everything on the menu was 280 Yen- including HUGE beers. We’re talking like OctoberFest size.
We each polished off 3 of those while eating lots of grilled skewers of all kinds, catching up about his life in Japan. He’s been here for about 7 years now, teaching ...
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Agora Regency Sakai
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Comfort Hotel Sakai
Sakai Station, Sakai | 3 star hotelfrom $51 -
Hotel Dai-ichi Sakai
2-2-25 Minami Koyo-cho, Sakai-ku, Sakai | Hotelfrom $79 -
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6-2-14 Ichinocho Higashi, Sakai-ku, Sakai | Hotelfrom $59 -
Super Hotel Sakai Marittima
Sakai Station, Sakai | Hotelfrom $39 -
Rinkai Hotel Ishizu
2-4-10 Hamadera Ishizucho Nishi, Nishi-ku, Sakai | Hotelfrom $46 -
Hotel 1-2-3 Sakai Inn
4-2-30,Omachihigashi,Sakai-ku, Sakai | Hotelfrom $45 -
Rinkai Hotel Kita
6-2 Dejimahamadori, Sakai-ku, Sakai | Hotelfrom $39 -
Sakai Sun Hotel Ishizugawa
3-4-25 Hamadera Ishizuchonishi, Nishi-ku, Sakai | Hotel -
Hotel Liberty Plaza
1-1-17 Okinabashicho, Sakaiku, Sakai | 3 star hotelfrom $65 -
Business Hotel Naka
26-26 Shimoda-cho, Sakai | Hotel -
City Hotel Seiunso
2-4-14 Dejima Kaigan-dori, Sakai | Hotelfrom $60 -
Daiwa Roynet Hotel Sakai Higashi
5-13 Shinmachi, Sakai-ku, Sakai | 3 star hotelfrom $74 -
New Ohama
3-11-3 Ohamakitamachi, Sakai-ku, Sakai | Hotelfrom $32
