Hotel New Otani Osaka

We spent the night at the New Otani Hotel.  The rooms are so big!  We just finished eating breakfast and we are about to head over to the Keiai Middle School.  Then we are going to be staying with out host families.  Breakfast was very ...

... , Ueno Park, Meiji Grand Shrine, Hibiya City Ice Skating Rink, Tokyo Dome Skating Rink, Tsukiji Fish Market & Honganji Temple, Hotel New Otani, Akasaka Prince Hotel Cake Buffet, Ameyoko Shopping Street, Yasukuni Shrine, Yushima Tenjin Shrine, Yushima ...

... and Mac (from Chicago) about 3 hours north of where I live and we drove in Mac's car the rest of the way to Osaka. We decided to stay at a new hostel since we were kind of sick of the $20 "business hotel" we usually stay in (the idea behind them ...

... but I couldn't see the "Higo Bank" on the map (in theory a very large building).  Fortunately there was a hotel on the left hand side "New Otani" that related to the map and voila I was able to find the hotel. The Hotel Route Inn Kumamoto Ekimae is ...

... the narrow streets, I loved it. Anyway it was a lot warmer then Hokkaido thats for sure.  Wednesday we first went to Otani Hombyo, a famous temple dedicated to the founder of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism. My dad knew the monk there I guess because we went ...