Blogs from Osaka, Osaka, Japan, Asia - page 21

Last nite as I was heading to the subway I passed a gray ball of fuzz in the tunnel. It was not a rat, literrally just a giant dustball, but it got me thinking about rats... You don't see rats in Japan. Oh, they're out there, just not visible. I've only seen a rat once here and this is the story: At the time I was living in Wakayama-Ken. Through my friend Shannon (a NZer) I met Shin. Shin was an aspiring guitarist living in Osaka City. He had studied English in Australia and had big plans to return and make it BIG as a rock star. Hey, we all have dreams! On this particular day, Shin had invited me to join his band's practice. Band name forgotten...band mates names, yeah, also forgotten! Except for Daisuke ... read more

15.02.08 Freitag Den letzten Tag unseres Ausflugs verbrachten wir im Univerasl Studio in Osaka und im gegensatz zu Disney Sea haben hier die Expresstickets Funktioniert, so das wir (Ich und Jan) zwar 20 Euro mehr zahlen mussten dafuer jedoch auch an unseren Klassenkameraden in den Schlangen vorbeirennen konnten. Was sehr witzig war, da wir in einer unsere lehrerin Trafen die nur erstaunt guckte als wir einfach an ihr vorbei gingen. Der ganze tag war super und eir haben jede sehenswerte Attraktion mitgenommen die es gab. Terminator 3D, Spider-Man 3D, Jursassik Park. Back to Future und die Achterbahn. Auf der rueckfahr mit dem Shinkansen nach Tokyo musste ich dann herrausfinden das eine Chinesin die ich auf 20 geschaetzt hatte in wirklichkeit 30 war. Peinlich, peinlich. 16.02.08 Samstag Den Abend verbrachten Yu, Kevin (Klassenkammerad) und ich bei unser ... read more

hey everyone! last night a bunch of us went to osaka again! but we went to a different area, not shinsaibashi, this time. we went to umeda and the 8-story yodobashi camera store. we decided to go there because some people needed to buy things for their camera, and ben actually needed to buy a camera! so we walked to makino station and took the train to umeda from there...we also got to ride the subway again but it was sooo crowded! we were packed in there like sardines. i didn't have anything to hold on to, but i wasn't going to be moving anway cause it was so full. when we finally got to umeda everyone was starving. so we're looking around trying to find a CHEAP place to eat. lately yasui has become my ... read more

Osaka is bold, bright and brash. We stayed in the Dotombori area, right in the heart of party town. I have never seen such a concentration of restaurants, shops, and neon. And the architecture is bonkers. No two buildings are the same. One has a ship wrapped around it, one has a statue of liberty on the top, one has a huge ebisu face, one's in the shape of a barrel, it goes on... The perfect place to spend the weekend. We had a great Friday night, a complete contrast to our Nagasaki night out. A very British night out, but with a Japanese twist. Well, we have been away from home for five months. Unlike Nagasaki, restaurants here are easy and accessible. Lots and lots of very helpful resin food models! We found our target, ... read more

Oj oj, nu har jag mycket att berätta, har haft en del att stå i så hann inte uppdatera igår. Efter senaste inlägget så vart det meningen att vi skulle gått ut och festa men Jetlagget ägde oss och vi somnade istället, vi lyckades dock gå upp vid en normal tid så nu känner vi oss mer vid liv. Onsdagsmorgonen började med frukost på hotellet och sedan stegade vi ut i regnet, jag köpte genast ett genomskinligt paraply a'la Lost in Translation som jag bar runt på hela dagen utan att använda förutom för att posa lite när tillfällena gavs =). Vårat första mål för dagen var lite äkta turistande, vi drog oss till Osakas slott som var en myyycket vacker byggnad men samtidigt så var det en typisk turistfälla och upplevelsen var väl inte riktigt ... read more