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2015-06-13 01:01
in Japan, Japan2015, Ntrips, Trips
We were pretty much done with Nara and my dad was longing for seeing other things than temples after 3 days of Kyoto and Nara :) so we ate a great breakfast at our Ryokan and went directly to Osaka. My dad was a bit tired, so he went in our room, and I went roaming around for the half day or so.
Osaka is literally filled with shopping arcades, too many to list :)
I got the Osaka 2 day attraction pass (3000 yens) and went to see attractions on the list. The first 2 were museums next to Osaka Castle. The museum of peace shows the ravages that war did to Osaka, although it does a poor job saying much about why Japan was at war to start with, or how Japan repeatedly failed to surrender when it was clear it was losing, and it took 2 atomic bombs to finally get them to yield without fighting to the last person alive like at Iwo Jima:
Next was the museum of Osaka History which reproduced a huge palace that used to be there before the whole city was destroyed to ruins from war bombing:
a game where you have to hit a target with a fan
abeno harukas, a 300m high skyscraper (the tallest in Japan), where I went next
tsutentaku, where I was just 30mn earlier
the sad zoo, I was warned to avoid at all costs
one fish restaurant had an aquarium with fishies that came to eat your skin
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