Osaka Japanese B&Bs - Reviews and Rates

We woke up, packed up and left the tour club in Kyoto - they gave us a gift of a pair of chop-sticks each, lovely people! We hopped on a train to Osaka, and we spent 45 minutes looking out of the window, trying to take in as much as we could. We managed to find our next hostel, J-Hoppers, in Fukushima, just one stop from Osaka station, and thank...

Competition ended Sunday night with the U.S. men winning the 4x400-meter relay in style. Jeremer Wariner zooming ahead of the pack for the uncontested gold. For nine days, the world's top track and field athletes, well, many of them --some skip to slow down their preparation for next year's Beijing Olympics -- gathered in Osaka for this showcase...

Today I headed with my Barry and his girlfriend and their friend to Koshien Stadium to watch the high school baseball. Koshien Stadium is the spiritual home of the Hanshin Tigers, the most famous baseball team in Osaka and the subject of a couple of posts on here already. Once a year the Tigers vacate their stadium for a couple of weeks to allow...

Today was meant to be the day we'd check out Fuji-san but Mike had picked up a bad cough and I felt ill from something I ate the day before. So instead Dave and I took it easy and went to have a look at Osaka's Kita (north) area, where the main CBD is. We got bored of that quick. The underground shopping was nothing we hadn't seen before in the ...

Every weekday dozens of foreigners here fly to Japan to get working visas at the consulate in Osaka. It's a routine procedure; not terribly well organized--one guy didn't have proper papers from his school so his trip wasted--but it's a good chance to get out of Seoul, meet people and see Osaka, even if it's only for a few hours. There were twen...