Hotel Granvia Osaka
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3-1-1 Umeda Osaka, Osaka, Kinki, Japan, 530-000, 6-6344-1235
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Time for a quick report on the first day! We firstly had the inconvenience of being bumped from the Jetstar flight to Sydney on to a earlier (much earlier) QANTAS domestic flight, so we flew out of Brisbane at 5.55 this morning on QANTAS flight 501. This meant we had to transfer ourselves from the domestic to the international terminal and complete the international checking in Sydney. During this process we encountered our first complete rip off before we even got close to japan. The one sto...
Osaka, Kinki, Japan jaywilliams
Today began late after the late night yesterday at about 10.30am. Chantelle wanted to head out to the uni she was at for 6 months and see what had changed. We managed to find the right station to catch the train to the right stop with the only hurdle being the train ticket machines. Thankfully you just hit the "assistance" button and a helpful japanese man pops his head out from the wall beside you to tell you what to do! The ticketing system here is slightly different to Australia in that y...
Osaka, Japan jaywilliams
This morning began with breakfast viking style one of the hotel's restaurants. It was a western style breakfast with a Japanese flavour. It was pretty good but nothing too fantastic. We then purchased our USJ (Universal Studios Japan) tickets from the hotel reception and made our way to the train. A quick train change and we are there! We made our way in and after some indecision we decided to start at Snoopy Studios. Inside there is a indoor kids rollercoaster and a bunch of kids activities ...
Osaka, Japan jaywilliams
Today was our last day in Okayama and it was spent exploring a themepark that we unexpectedly bumped into when we got to Okayama. Tivoli Park! It was a cute little theme park based off Tivoli Park in Denmark. The park contained a fun rollercoaster, a flume ride, big wheel and several other smaller traditional sytle attractions as seen in the photos. It was definately worth the attendance and a nice surprise along the way. After finishing up at Tivoli Park, we went across the road to the train...
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... The bus ride back from the temples was quite the experinece. The bus was packed. It was very hard to get off the bus at our stop. You have to get off the bus at the front of the bus which meant we had to push our way thorugh everyone. You actually get on the bus at the back door and you get off at the front. You pay your fair when you get off.
We ended the morning at a large ...
... former imperial capital of Japan (the capital moved to Tokyo in the mid-18 Hundreds). The city has over 2,000 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines as well as numerous gardens. The city has a number of pre-war homes as it was not bomb by the americans during WWII,
Yuki took us to see the follwoing 4 temples:
- Ryoanji Temple - this temple had a beautiful rock (zen) garden which was very simple yet remarkable ...
We arrived in Osaka at 7am after two 7 hour flights and a 3 hour stopover in KL... what is sleep again?
The excitement of being in Japan kept us going all day though, and we managed to fit in a visit to Osaka castle, surrounded by deciduous trees in all beautiful shades of yellow and red (even Bevan thought it was pretty). We also visited Amerika Mura, the square to sit in and ...
... also says that it is important to make sure the cattle feel relaxed, and also naturally to keep the cowsheds clean. But what took me by surprise was that the cattle listen to music all day long!
I asked whether the cattle are fed beer and given massages with sake to produce better quality beef, according to the myth believed by some overseas.
They flatly denied it with the simple phrase, “No beer, No massage”!
The cattle are shipped before they ...
... Ferry would leave at 10.30am. the Ferry port was " only " 15 minutes away by taxi, and the taxi stand was next to Mac.....So what could go wrong?? Well we needed to pin some extra money as we did not know what we could do on board..and the Ferry needed to be paid in cash as I found out already 3 months ago as I made the booking. The booking was solid, but only if you pay cash at the port. So letīs find a bank. But that was the problem with being so fast ...
Osaka, Kinki, Japan paulyandblondy
... without checking the location of where I was going. I'd only remembered that I was heading towards the Nagahoribashi subway stop, but I'd forgotten to remember the address on the webpage. I then remembered that I could find an internet/manga cafe, since I'd heard that they often have internet access. Manga is what we typically call "Anime" or "Japanimation" I don't know what the exact difference is, but I think it has to do with "manga" = print, and "Anime ...
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