Went to Kaiyukan (Osaka Aquarium) today. It's huge, one of the largest there is. Such fun. I like swimmy things - Don't ever want to swim with them but I do like them. It's groovy, you go in and they heard you onto this escalator and you don't think about it until you're on. The escalator goes up FIVE STORIES HIGH and there's a big window beside you looking out over the ocean. I could not move my feet until I got past the window. It's amazingly well set up...

Well, I did nothing today. I've been feeling kind of crappy for the past few mornings but this morning was worse. I figured I could either get up and go to Hiroshima like I'd planned and continue getting sicker, or I could stop and rest for the day and try and get over this thingy before it gets worse. So I stayed in today. I probably wouldn't have but it's raining so I was definitely going to make it worse if I did go out. Now I have to decide if I want t...

I had a very non-touristy day today. Went to sleep early last night - woke up LATE today. I was kind of planning on going to Kyoto today but by the time I woke up that wasn't all that much of an option. (I bought my mobile with me to Japan to use as an alarm clock but it ran out of battery and won't charge here for some reason :( ) So instead I had a nice slow morning then explored the loal area. The map said that there was a place called Osaka City Plaza a...

I failed a lot today. And then I wrote it all up in a blog entry for this thing. Which took about 40mins because this keyboard is tiny and I keep making mistakes. And then I lost everything that I wrote before it was posted. Because I fail today. I'm not going to write it all out in detail again but basically it went like this: Took forever to get to the train station - I completely underestimated the distance. Went to Umeda - Went to Umeda Arts Theatre t...

Went to Osaka Jo today (Osaka Castle). It was only about ten minutes walk away. I took a photo of the moat from the park and then some old lady asked me where I was from. I thought she wanted my help with something but it turns out that she worked there and wanted to heard me into the castle so I could pay an admission fee. I went in. Payed my admission fee. Checked out the inside of the castle, which is now a museum about it's own history. Apparently it ...