Big in Japan!
31/05/2007
It’s night 4 in Japan, and we’re enjoying our last night in Osaka. Other than my feet killing me, everything else is great.
The weather’s been pretty good. Food and all is fine. Hotel rooms I can live with (though this one has a spotty cable-internet connection, tsk tsk).
But my feet are killing me! We’ve been walking a lot. We walked around the train stations trying to get to Ikebukuro the first night in Tokyo, the walked around Ikebukuro the next morning, then we had to get back into the subway (up and down flights of stairs lugging around something like 25kg of luggage is a real killer), navigate the molemines that is the underground, find our bullet train to Osaka, change a couple of subway lines and then walk to the hotel. That is such a killer trip, I wouldn’t recommend staying at this hotel (Namba Washington Hotel) if you plan to subway your way around Japan.
Yesterday we made a short daytrip to Himeji Castle. It was an awesome little trip. It rained a little but it didn’t pour, instead it just kinda sprinkled the whole day.
Today we walked around looking for electronics. We started with Yodobashi Camera, went around looking for Sony Tower (but it was being rebuilt), and then it was mostly walking around looking for more. Didn’t buy anything though.
Tomorrow we finish our shopping around the area and head on over to Kyoto. More then.
