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The shanks pony transport option
... to get a Nankai through pass and to cut a long story short -That place is an endless labarynth of low ceilinged,white tiled shopping arcade the size of a small suburb.Very scary !
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carnival market and the shrine with the big frog and the tori gates
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after a bit,i walked to dotombori for some night photography
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The journey home
... our train to Kansai Airport. Wasn't quite the platform change we thought it would be. Had to leave the Shinkansen section of the station and go back into the 'regular' bit of the station. Nevertheless we were on the platform with ages to spare.
If arriving into Japan was easy, then leaving was even easier. Check-in took all of five minutes due to the dedicated StarClass/Business Class counter. Our only issue was deciding which of the two ...
Rainy Season
... ride back.
We spent our last weekend at home catching up with friends and errands. We went to Namba to a Brazilian restaurant, Barbacoa. (http://www.barbacoa.jp/shinsaibashi/en /about/index.html) It was all you can eat of salad, dessert, and Brazilian BBQ. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of this part of the day as we were busy eating!
After that we walked down to the Dotonbori bridge, debating what to do on a rainy afternoon. We ended ...
Kyoto: A dose of culture
... dinner as we were exiting a restaurant into an alley, I unexpectedly saw her approaching: floating, a silent swift shuffle, dark hair pinned up, white makeup covered her face and neck, artfully drawn red lips, a green kimono. As she passed, Ed, another tourist family, and I just stared in hushed reverence until she ducked into a doorway. Then she was gone. An apparition.
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