Hotel Yotsubashi Osaka
1-10-12, Shin-machi, Nishi-ku Osaka, Osaka, Kinki, 550-0013, Japan
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The backstreets of Osaka
... world, these trains would be every hour (if you’re lucky) but here in Japan the trains to Osaka left Tokyo every five or ten minutes.
The fast train (Nozumi) to Osaka takes less than three hours and when I arrived at Shin Osaka station I made my way into the city where I’d arranged to meet Yoshi, an old friend of mine who I’ve known since we both lived in Tokyo all those years ago. That evening, after he finished work, we headed off to a ...
Osaka aquarium
... and kathleen, the kids and I walked up to the Kyoto Chishakuin Temple to see the bells that so tormentuously wake us each morning, ugh!. The Chishakuin is the headquarters of the approximately 3000 temples nation wide belonging to the Chisan school of the shingone sect of Buddhism. it is still very active today and houses shrines, temples, prayer rooms and lovely gardens with serene water features, ponds and falls as well as rock gardens and even a cemetery. It ...
A Taste Of Home..
So in our Japanese apartment we have a kitchen. It is a mini-kitchen. Miniature sized (for Jack especially) and "minutely" equipped by Western expectations of a kitchen. Namely, we are lacking an oven.
What we have is...
- a rice cooker (which I love, I'm not sure how I ever made rice without one now!)
- a microwave
- two gas burners
- what is perhaps called a "fish ...
Ginkakuji, and the philosophers walk.
The leaves are starting to change colour, unveiling a swathe of riotous reds, oranges and yellows on the many Maple and Ginko trees throughout Kyoto. One of the better areas to see the effect of this transformation is the east of Kyoto, and especially along the much heralded 'philosophers path.'
This thirty minute walk along a tree lined canal is so-named because the Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro used ...



