Last Saturday Aki & I jumped on the shinkansen in the morning, bound for Osaka.
The reason? To visit my cousin Nathan & his lovely girlfriend Aki who had just returned from 16 months of traveling around south east Asia on a posties motorcycle. Regular readers of my irregular blog will remember I posted a link to their adventures a while back. Here's the link again if you'd like to check it out: http://www.faster-than-walking.com/
We met up with my cousin around 1pm & then strolled on over to the 'Aqua Metropolis Osaka' - http://www.suito-osaka2009.jp/en/index.html
We were lucky to have such beautiful weather.. only a few days earlier a massive typhoon had hit.. so timing was certainly on our side. Behind us is a huge fish made of junk.
Apparently it's made entirely of stuff pulled out of the river.. People certainly do throw away some strange things.
It was all really well laid out with a strong emphasis towards recycling & the environment.
There were several food & drink stalls along the way & we enjoyed some good Indian food, & a cucumber on a stick.
Deelish. I do like cucumber indeed.
There was music playing all day & we happened across this interpretive dance number. Which was.. erm.. special.
After a few hours of wandering around the aqua metropolis displays we walked on down to city hall.
Inside city hall was this massive robot baby statue. It was really impressive. There was a movie playing which showed it sitting down and breathing fire. Unfortunately we didn't get to see it do that, but it was pretty awesome nonetheless.
After that we caught the subway into a different part of town and walked down an incredibly long covered shopping street. It was packed with people & had a great atmosphere.
We eventually came to the famous Glico sign..
And posed.
This shop was so insanely pink that I felt sick from just standing in the doorway. The staff were very cute & friendly though so I instantly felt better. They sold all sorts of super cute maid style dresses & similar accessories.
We then ate some takoyaki & stopped at a cafe to have a coffee while we waited for Nathan's girlfriend Aki to finish work. From there we went to dinner and ate some great sushi at a restaurant called Jinen. One type of sushi that Aki recommended to us & we'd never had before was called Benitoro.
It was incredibly delicious. So much so in fact that it called for Nathan to celebrate by tying his air & beard together.
It was all over too quickly & around 9pm we bade them farewell.
Until we meet again.
A huge thank you to Nathan and AKi for a really wonderful day.
Looking forward to seeing you both again soon!
The reason? To visit my cousin Nathan & his lovely girlfriend Aki who had just returned from 16 months of traveling around south east Asia on a posties motorcycle. Regular readers of my irregular blog will remember I posted a link to their adventures a while back. Here's the link again if you'd like to check it out: http://www.faster-than-walking.com/
We met up with my cousin around 1pm & then strolled on over to the 'Aqua Metropolis Osaka' - http://www.suito-osaka2009.jp/en/index.html
We were lucky to have such beautiful weather.. only a few days earlier a massive typhoon had hit.. so timing was certainly on our side. Behind us is a huge fish made of junk.
Apparently it's made entirely of stuff pulled out of the river.. People certainly do throw away some strange things.
It was all really well laid out with a strong emphasis towards recycling & the environment.
There were several food & drink stalls along the way & we enjoyed some good Indian food, & a cucumber on a stick.
Deelish. I do like cucumber indeed.
There was music playing all day & we happened across this interpretive dance number. Which was.. erm.. special.
After a few hours of wandering around the aqua metropolis displays we walked on down to city hall.
Inside city hall was this massive robot baby statue. It was really impressive. There was a movie playing which showed it sitting down and breathing fire. Unfortunately we didn't get to see it do that, but it was pretty awesome nonetheless.
After that we caught the subway into a different part of town and walked down an incredibly long covered shopping street. It was packed with people & had a great atmosphere.
We eventually came to the famous Glico sign..
And posed.
This shop was so insanely pink that I felt sick from just standing in the doorway. The staff were very cute & friendly though so I instantly felt better. They sold all sorts of super cute maid style dresses & similar accessories.
We then ate some takoyaki & stopped at a cafe to have a coffee while we waited for Nathan's girlfriend Aki to finish work. From there we went to dinner and ate some great sushi at a restaurant called Jinen. One type of sushi that Aki recommended to us & we'd never had before was called Benitoro.
It was incredibly delicious. So much so in fact that it called for Nathan to celebrate by tying his air & beard together.
It was all over too quickly & around 9pm we bade them farewell.
Until we meet again.
A huge thank you to Nathan and AKi for a really wonderful day.
Looking forward to seeing you both again soon!
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