A day to savor Osaka

October 11, 2024

We were well settled in our comfortable little hotel in Osaka. The hotel room was spacious for Japan with natural light and two double beds. Everywhere there were natural touches like gardens and soothing classical music.

We got up and went down to the included breakfast. The attendant asked how we could like our eggs prepared and then we chose some coffee and juice. Within a few minutes one of the wait staff brought a beautiful breakfast prepared in that meticulous and beautiful Japanese way.

A artfully added mushroom, a few kernals of corn and a stem of arugular create a piece of art.

We had quite a few hours to kill before our early evening flight to Taiwan. I needed to pick up a couple of SD cards for my camera ( running out of space) and so we hopped on the local train and then, in Osaka center, the circular route train around the city. In 20 minutes we were on the ground and walked 2 blocks to the Obayashi camera store. Once again, the block seemed to be full of camera stores, they are all clumped together in a district.

Emerging onto the street, we picked a museum to check out the Osaka Municipal Housing Museum. There was a fascinating recreation of the city from 200 years ago.

After a satisfying visit to the museum, we walked down the street and found a little green space that was also a small shrine with a theme of helping find single people find love.

From here we walked over to some covered walkways or shopping malls that are typical in this area of the city.

After getting back to the hotel mid-afternoon, we packed up and took trains connecting to the Kansai airport, an airport that is constructed on it’s own floating island, connected to the mainland by an expressway and train line. We were ready for a 3 hour flight to Kaoshiung, Alice’s home town.