11/10/13 - Osaka

My morning started off with me sleeping in again. But hey...I'm on annual leave. So I went to eat breakfast thinking crap this is going to be awesome having potato salad again, I love the mayo they use. Nope nope. It was macaroni salad...covered in mayo. Let me tell you, it goes down like a treat when it's with orange juice. So I went back up stairs to pack my bag and dash and mum messages me with some lady got shot dead in sunshine. No surprise there but she actually said for once that I don't need to be told to be careful. That's right worrying wog mother. You be careful.

So I got the tram or streetcar, whichever you prefer, to Hiroshima station. Grabbed the next train to Shin-Osaka and sat my fat ass down. What I love here is that even old people have mobile phones and they're like teenagers, so absorbed into them. So on the train this couple are looking for a seat together. I took the last two spare seats together before I saw them and the bitch gave me the death stare. Well fuck your seat. Hope your break up.

I arrived in Osaka, somehow got a train to my Hostel, or as it's known, backpacker hotel. Or as you can see, tissue box sized room...

I walked into the room and thought when the hell did I book this? I thought I got the western room. Whatever. I actually couldn't care less. I'm the guy who will sleep anywhere. Just not on a car, bus, train or plane. So give me a Japanese bed in a room 3 tatami mats big and I'm happy. Kind of.

I thought at this point what is there to do? I know! Grab lunch. So I walked the streets and realised holy crap I'm staying in the scummiest place ever. Bums everywhere and I feared it was going to be like Paris all over again. It's fine though because the Japanese are so polite. I mean even watching tv last khht they bow as they open with the news headlines.

I got the train back to Osaka or Udeno station. Grabbed some lunch at the first place I saw and I ate eel. Yeah I didn't realised because it said assorted sushi. It was actually really really good though. So on I went to the floating garden. Let me clarify. It's not floating and neither is it a garden. It's an observation of Osaka which is has a lot of roof top gardens. There. Done. Said it.

Then I decided to take a crap as my hostel has normal toilets. Yes, 36 floors above the earth I take a crap on this toilet which has a back rest. A goddamn back rest. Who sits on the toilet that long, they need a back rest?! It even has a music function which is just the sound of the toilet flushing to drown out the poop sounds. I don't care. Hear me poop damn it! 

Then I went to the new shopping centre just outside of the non garden viewing and non floating observation circle. It had a coke shop, the shop I saw Milano with all the clothes in small cubes and a lab shop which was a science type place. Then it had amazing restaurants and stuff. I then went to the station and felt a bit nostalgic when I saw Dimaru shopping centre and best of all, Pokemon centre. POKEMON CENTRE! I went and got a photo in there. The staff just laughed. Eat shit, I'll never see you again silly staff.

I left and got the train back to the hostel and had a nap. Once I got up I went for a walk to Dotorimuri and had Tokonyuki (ocptus balls) along the way. After burning my mouth I got to my destination. After some guy tried convincing me into his bar and inaued the tourist card and couldn't understand him. What, beer? $1? I don't understand. 

I walked around and got some amazing photos of the area and walked back, a total 2 hours walk. I went to the Noya roof top garden and saw some guy grabbing girlfriends tits as she was sitting on him. Ah. So young. You have to learn to be more discrete. But once I got back at 10.30pm from walking random streets I was done.