Tag: Osaka

  • Shrine, Sky Building, Shinkansen and Shochu

    Shrine, Sky Building, Shinkansen and Shochu

    Day 6 – Wednesday, 3 April 2024 Woke to the first real rain in Japan. While packing carried on around me, I turned on the television in a moment of idle curiosity to find, between the inevitable morning advertorials for products I couldn’t identify, let alone decide I needed, wall to wall tsunami warnings for…

  • Osaka-jō and a Snorey Foot Massage

    Osaka-jō and a Snorey Foot Massage

    Day 5 – Tuesday, 2 April 2024 Barely any sleep on the overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur to Osaka. The train in from Kansai Osaka Airport to Osaka Namba at 6.40am slowly filled up with commuters looking even more zoned out than I was. Seb napped a bit as the carriage filled up – “filled”…