October 7, Osaka, Kyoto Japan Well this certainly isn’t China; we were unable to get our landing permits to China so we landed in Osaka, booked into the Nikko hotel at the airport. A complement to Travel Guild is that when things started going wrong they hustled and came up with an alternative airport to land, hotel accommodations, plus planned tours. Yesterday, there was a brief tour of Osaka, and a visit to Osaka Castle. The Castle appears quite formable but was taken once in the past and then rebuilt but suffered a serious fire. In 1931 the citizens of Osaka contributed funds to restore it to its former state. Lunch was down a small lane and into a narrow but long building. The lunch was traditional Japanese and was very good. (For comparison with home
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