Japan 2024 Ōsaka Docklands After my travel companions enjoyed the docklands of Kobe so much, we thought we should check out the ones that we have in our local city too! Your browser does not support the
Japan 2024 Nara (奈良市) Well, it's time to try and do something really touristy. Like trying to visit Nara. Upon arrival, we knew we wanted to take a bus to the park (where else would you go)
Japan Ōsaka (大阪市) Sousaphone Having bought the umbrella, the weather forecast has dutifully determined that it is no longer required. It rained overnight and then let the sun shine today. The good news: I didn't need my
Japan 2024 Ōsaka (大阪市) Having made it to Tokyo, found a hotel, and sleeping like a stone, today's goal was to continue the travel adventure down south. Three days worth of traveling in three days, using three
Japan 2018 City Skylines The last picture of the last two blog entries have both been off of the view from our accomodation. With a nicely large window, and a window sill to sit on, I made
Asia 2016 Osaka (大阪市) Winter After enjoying a little bit of extra sleep and preparing more for our immediate surrounding region, we headed out to see the city that we had actually landed in last night. And when
Asia 2016 Country of Lights It was far too early when we had to get up, it was -6 degrees when we were standing outside for the shuttle, and after it still hadn’t turned up 15 minutes
Osaka Ōsaka (大阪) Aquarium Today was time for the Osaka Aquarium. And a glorious one it was. They did put in quite some effort into a lot of aspects. The feeding times were a beautiful show of
Osaka Ōsaka (大阪) 2 Today we found the "impregnable" castle from 1583, that is Osaka-Jō. The fact that it's been destroyed about three times since then and is currently reconstructed using concrete is nothing but
Osaka Ōsaka (大阪) Having pulled an all nighter the previous day, after which I got about three hours of bad sleep on the plane, falling asleep last night proved to present zero difficulties. Though I can't
Japan From dawn till dusk. By car, plane, and train. 3 hours of driving, 10 hours of flying, 4 hours of train(ing?), and 5 hours of miscellaneous cuing/waiting/walking later, and Washinoko has finally earnt himself a view from the 22nd