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Published: September 11th 2013
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That night we arrived, we promptly went out to eat in the Shimanouchi District. one the the entertainment areas of Osaka. We arrived at a hole in the wall with seating for 6,cantina style. I ordered a rich pork soup with seaweed on top. It was salty and tasty. YES I AM OBLIGED TO EAT MEAT because grapes are 25 dollars a BUNCH!
Oh the agony! The district was entertaining! Red light as well. Lots of night clubs and youngish women dressed to kill. Did I mention the architecture.
Next day we started out the by taking the subway to the JR station ( Bullet train ) to activate our JR Railpass to allow us to travel throughout our trip, in Japan. In Osaka, we have to think like an Osakian when figuring out the protocol to exchange our voucher into a railpass.
When taking the subway for the first time, we had to navigate the machine that spit out the ticket. It wasn't easy. First we had to get the English to show. Once we figured that out , it was then trying to get the right configuration of buttons to have the machine spit out the
ticket. Whew. Thats done. In the mean time we were hungry so that meant finding a place to eat. We tend to look for menus with pictures on it. At some point you become humbled with the work it takes to figure out the simplest task. Like eating. No vegetables or fruit.
Once we hit Shinsailbashi Railway station, we were homefree. We hopped on and headed directly to Uneda station where we would spend the day riding the Hep 5 Ferris wheel, visiting the floating garden (Thats what they called the place, NO GARDEN) on top of the Shin Umeda City building. This is where the escalators rise from the outside from the 37th floor and enter into the building at the 40th floor. When we hit the top of this building we were able to have a panoramic view of Osaka.
We then stopped for lunch and ate Sushi that was on a conveyor belt that meandered around the restaurant. Color coded plates depicted the price. I ate whale meat and blue Egg plant, and sardine like fish. As well, we ate octopus, salmon etc..... to numerous dishes to remember.
Osaka is so crowded that the
shoppers seemed like they outweighed the working class. It was noted that most of the shoppers were woman. Either they vastly out number the men, or they spend the mens money. I like to think that they spend the mens money.
After sleeping at 3Pm that afternoon (Jet lag) we headed out to eat again and had deep fried octopus balls with shredded onion and soaked in a Teriyaki sauce by the canal. We were still hungary and ate again 10 minutes later. I PROMISE I WON'T GET FAT. Finally finished the day walking back through a covered shopping arcade district. Being in this area, was exiting. This arcade was at least 2 kilometers long, and featured plenty of examples of shopaholics. All I could think of is that they lived in such tiny houses, where did they put all the stuff they buy.
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Shae
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Octopus Balls?
Oh gosh, octopus balls sound bad enough, and fattening too? Grin. Such an odd place, and I am content to travel vicariously through you and Siu Yee! I pray you find veggies and fruit--is the lack thereof because of the radiation contamination? And lol on the shopping versus the size of general living quarters! Thanks so much for sharing Wawa! Hugs to SiuWa!