Sorry about the lack of posts, been busy with school and work…I am currently busy with work, I will be posting the rest of my trip later. Plus, my flickr acct got deleted and so did my newly uploaded pics which I have to censor all over again….o well. Btw I will be moving to a new server, animeblogger, after my vacation posts.
Archive for July, 2007
I went to visit Osaka Castle, aka Ozakajo, the next day, the construction was ordered by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It was interesting to see something that was constructed during the time samurai and damiyo existed, btw it was reconstructed after being bombed in WWII, in the middle of the business district. But the inside of the castle was made up to look like a museum and nothing looked like a castle at all inside. Something that I thought was really cool though was projected images of actors acting out the time during Hideyoshi’s life as I have never seen that before. The view from the top is great and the park around it is real nice as well, though it would have been nicer when the cherry blossoms bloomed. If you really want to understand and see a small part of Japanese history, I would advise you to visit.
On the second day I went to Osaka Aquarium KAIYUKAN and Deer Park in Nara. Osaka Aquarium is a nice way to spend around half a day in. There were a bunch of animals I’ve never seen before including a whale shark, Japanese crab, some gigantic fish, and other animals. There was a big shopping center next to the aquarium that included an arcade where I won my first UFO crane game prize in Japan. There were a lot of things to buy in the shopping center and worth checking out. After the aquarium I took the train to Deer Park which is actually full of deer, both male and female. The deer just roam around in the park and eat grass if some person, like me, doesn’t feed them. It was really cool feeding the deer, although they can be a bit aggressive so I suggest people who feed them be at least 5′6″; for I am 5′9″ and those deer horns went up to my lower chest where they prodded me lol. It was interesting being harassed by deer, for I just pulled out my wallet to get 150 yen for some deer food when they swarmed me and started poking me lol, not an experience I will soon forget. They are really tame and won’t tackle you based on my experience and once I showed them I had no food left they left me lol, talk about eat and run. There are a few pagodas and temples around the area so its nice to walk around before you head back home/hotel.
Hey everyone, I’m back. Japan was very well…SUGOI LOL. My previous post about being in Japan was only about staying in the Kansai Airport, but now I actually explored Japan. It’s an otaku’s dream to go to the land of kawaii, bikes, anime, butt-washing toilets, and more ^-^. I visited the Kansai area of Japan which isn’t Tokyo but sugoi anyways. I had a lot of fun going to different place, surrounded by what else…Japanese people ^-^. I’m Asian so no one took two glances at me and assumed I was Japanese. Well on to the post. Today I will talk about where I stayed in Japan which is Minami Morimachi, Umeda in Osaka, say that five times fast lol. It was a nice town that didn’t have that hustle and bustle feel of Tokyo which I liked, but the downside was everything was practically Konbinis (convenience stores), restaurants, and business offices; only one extremely long street had shops to buy stuff. If you want to stay in a shopping district of Osaka, I would suggest Umeda itself or Namba which is filled with shops and restaurants that take more than a whole day to see everything, though you probably want to shop around 10 am as most stores don’t open until around that time.
I’ll be going to Osaka, Japan tomorrow so I won’t be posting for a bit. I’ll be back with pics ^-^, BYE-BEE.
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