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Japan 2006 Trip - Day 5

It has been a crazy busy, but great, day. I started off in the morning with Yoshiro's brother Yukihiro. He took me down past the Osaka Business Park (OBP) and into Osaka Castle. A very beautiful castle with a kind of violent history. I got to try Osaka style Okinomiyaki and it was delicious! Totally different then the one I had in Toronto. We headed over to Nihonbashi which is the electronic central of Osaka. Because Yoshiro told his brother I'm some sort of otaku he kept taking me around to strange stores just for otaku people. I looked inside a "maid" restaurant and just enquired at a few locations about buying a prepaid phone to use in Japan.

I was at the vodafone as well asking about buying the remote control for my cell phone but it is ￥5,460 (about $350 HKD) which seems kind of expensive just for a remote control. I think buying another phone is cheaper than that. But, on the side I'm debating about signing up for a prepaid phone with AU. Buying a prepaid phone through them is about ￥3,990 and the prepaid phone service is another ￥3,000. Rental is nearly as expensive but you're just renting a phone and service for 7 days.

We meet up with Yoshiro later, he had a soccer game earlier in the day, and he took over as my tourguide. We saw a ramen museum and a famous dessert spot. He took me to eat Takoyaki and to Namba bridge.

We met up with his father to go eat at Suigetsu （粋月）. While waiting I managed to find a jacket, one that I've been looking for, for a while. The food was really good, especially the dessert. We tormented the waitress with our English questions, but after we had a good laugh at her serving "bamboo babies" to us (bamboo shoots) she had a lot of fun coming back to serve us. She helped correct Yoshiro's knowlege of kimono, yukata, haori, etc. It was a long day but we covered a lot so I'm happy.

Labels: Travel

posted by Tempest7 @ 07:05