Japan day 3

We decided to have a easy day today and slept in a little. At about 10am or so we made our way to the floating garden observatory. It's a circular structure at the top of this building and it offers some really spectacular views of the city of osaka. I must saw it really is a pretty dense city. After taking some photos and taking a break, we made our way to the aquarium which has a huge 8 storey tank and whales. Cool.

Japan day 2

For dinner today, we went to namba and ate at this crab place. Man, it was really good. The dish you see in the photo above is the cold dish. I think it serves as an appetizer. We also had grilled crab, crab steamboat, crab sashimi and crab tempura. Wah, super. Then there was some sushi and some of the best chawamushi i've ever had. After that, we went outside and had some really good takoyaki. Ah... Satisfied. :-)

Japan day 2

Next we headed to miyajima where this really famous temple is. When the tide rises, the legs of the structure in the photo above is submerged in water. Very cool. Aside from that, the best part of this island is the street food which is really to die for. I particularly love the grilled oysters in shell. Now i'm on the train back to hiroshima where we'll head back to osaka for dinner. :-)

Japan day 2

The first thing we did when we reached Hiroshima was visit the atomic bomb memorial park. The above is what is left of one of the buildings that remained standing after the bomb was detonated over the city. After that we visited the museum which was really depressing and sad. The effect of the bomb was really horribly devastating. In the museum, they have two models. One of the city before the bomb and the other after. If you've never sen photos of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the model of the city after the bombing will really illustrate to you just how destructive it was. It's really quite chilling. :-(

Japan day 2

This is the second day of my 12 day trip to japan. We're now on the shinkansen on our way to hiroshima. Breakfast was a plum onigiri which was extremely tasty and hot can coffee from a vending machine. Yummy. :-)

Japan day 1

My first okonomiyaki. :-) we had dinner in a very japanese restaurant. The menu was entirely in japanese and there were no pictures. We had a hard time ordering. Lucky i'm travelling with sy who speaks some japanese so ordering was not so bad. The sashimi was really good. The food was mostly good. I ate my first slice of raw octopus too. And we accidently ordered some almost raw chicken which was kinda tasty but very sinewy and we found it hard to eat so didn't finish it. Am back in the hotel. Resting after a hot shower... Ah... :-)

Japan day 1

I must admit though, we did more eating then sight seeing today. It took us a while to navigate the confusing train system and we were also rather tired. Still the food looks so cool, so we had onigiri, waffles, pizza, dango and this green ice-cream puff, which from kyoto, is really delicious. Later we may go to the food street for dinner. Depending on how tired we are. :-)