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Travel Blogs from Osaka
Osaka
... where can I get coffee??' It was very funny listening to her hehehehehe We left so who knows if she found a starbucks or not. (We did see them later at Osaka castle, but decided not to ask if they had found coffee :).
So after getting the discount tickets, we needed breakfast, so off we went on a walk to find some. We went down some escalators and found a Parisian bakery, mmmmmmmm so we grabbed a tray and put croissants, two sausage pastry ...
Nihon no bunka!
... every moment of my daily life which feels so ''fine'' and even so ''civilized''. How else can i define Japan than by using the word ''civilized''?
I know (oh yes i do) that very often the first impressions while going first time in a country are often too enthusiastic, too subjective (even if i almost always have very bad impressions before learning to appreciate a country). I understand that i see only one sq.m. of the top of the iceberg but how can i explain the ''easiness'' ...
A Walk Through Nagai Park
... trees in the courtyard. They are huge and the branches all twist out away from each other. Very beautiful. After exploring the temple we walked down to Sam's favourite game store and wandered the aisles laughing, staring and reading. They have such old games that you can't find anymore. I found some Nintendo DS games that I want to get when i get home because almost all the games in the store are of course in Japanese. Sam also mentioned that they may not ...
Breakfast
... most beautiful geisha girl. I wanted to ask her to marry me all over again and even dropped on one knee, much to the amusement of all around. She quickly, but with a smile, pulled me up and told me to behave.
The ladies were sure that I looked like a Samurai, a Shogun no less, though I would have loved to have had black hair long enough to be styled into a top-knot, and a long samurai sword hanging on my back or buckled at my hip.
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Bring on the Sushi
... from west Japan before he returned to the east so he spent the first two days showing me Osaka which was a godsend as it was all a little confusing to start with and there aren't as many English signs as I would have liked so it was great to have someone who could speak Japanese and explain how everything worked, starting with the subway network. Its a fabulous system and as I travelled on it made it so easy to get around however at the start it was a little baffling as they have so ...
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Hostel 64 Osaka
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