Il Grande Umeda Osaka
3-5-23 Nishi Tenma, Kita-ku Osaka, Osaka, Kinki, 530-0047, Japan
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Osaka Hai
After rising and having our usual breakfast (the ice burger). We headed out from our futuristic and slightly confusing domicile and boarded the shinkansen toward Osaka. Besides the Disneyland train the Sugarcane train and watching a fair share of Soul train episodes this was my first proper train ride. The shinkansen rocketed through Japan …
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... first. It was a tough trip with all the luggage I was carrying around but luckilly the locals were kind enough to help me find my hotel. I checked in and went to bed!
Today I spent time to find my way around town. It's actually huge. I didn't expect it to be this massive and with so many different things and places to see. I went nowhere and yet I have seen so much. But sadly I can't upload any photographs here. The center of the town knows ...
Catching Up...Again...
... so we returned to Miyajima for some free time shopping before the ferry left back for Hiroshima. On my way to the ferry, I found a pack of two matching love charms, one for a male and one for a female, to be placed on a cellphone. I bought it for Shingo and I, and I plan to give it to him when he arrives back home next week.
After the ferry, we had a very long shinkansen ride back to Osaka.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25
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No kinky kimonos in Kyoto
... which reminded me of a story of some Aussies in Japan on business who wondered why the urinal was so high!?... :-)
On return to Osaka, there was an eerily large number of taxis downtown, all waiting for customers. We are talking several thousand at least! That's employment creation outta control. Needless to say our almost Octegenarian didn't look like he had his eyes open but hey, he got us ...



