Second day of Osaka

The first day of Osaka was sent mostly on orientation and settling down. It was a hungry day as we walked around comparing prices of food and lots of moving around by foot.

Second day of Osaka

Osaksa is a port city, and Shinsaibashi in the Minami area is a fantastic place and you could do people watching for the whole day. This is comparable to the Orchard Road in Singapore. Umeda is in the Kita area of Osaka and its is the CBD area of Osaka.


Commuting

You will be commuting with countless of Japanese man in full business suits. On the streets will be business suit-clad men and high-heel ladies cycling on the pavements. Their bicycles have a distinctive basket at the front. Parking of the bicycles will be outside their office buildings. There will be rows of bicycles on the sides of the pavements but you will see much order in the parking.

Food

In the morning, we visited the Hanshin Shopping area in the Umeda Station. Its like a huge takashimaya with 16 times more food. Food in Japan is not cheap, its about 20% more in Singapore, but I must totally compliment the pride that the Japanese put in serving and preparing their food.

It is in the shopping center's supermarket that we met with the SGD200+ rock melon. Ok, the skin of the melon is exceptionally beautiful, like those you would see on the delicate egg shell carving. We had big big apples that cost about SGD2 each and extremely sweet strawberries. Benny never like strawberry until he tried the Japanese version. Well, May is a good time to visit if you like strawberries as it is in season now.

At night, we went to have sushi buffet, but its actually quite disappointing as the variety of the sushi was not much and the quality is poor going by the Japan's standard. Nevertheless, it was a fine meal as the soup was good and there had like 5 versions of puddings. It was really good.