It' been a week now since I moved into my Japanese house. The house is traditional wood house and all there rooms have sliding doors and even though the are 10 people living here there is only one bathroom. I arrived on a Sunday at around midday. I was moving into the smallest room in the house and that room current resident to a Japanese girl call Aika who would be moving into one of the other larger rooms. At this point Aika was still asleep so I sat in the ...

Today being the big kid that I am…I went to the zoo. The other day on my trek through Osaka I came across spa world and noticed on my map that it was near Osaka zoo, so I made it a mission to go there. It was a really sunny day and I had to wear a hat so I could see without squinting. I got the train to Tennoji station and arrived there at about 11. The zoo itself is enclosed in a park which is quite large and I hoped I was on the right side of it for the zoo...

Today I went to the grand shrine in Nagai. One of the people I had met at the hostel had told me about the place and I knew roughly where it was and had marked it on my map.Nagai is at the other end of Osaka to the hostel and I had no plans to walk the distance so I grabbed a train. The station I needed is opposite Nagai park and before I went on to the shrine I decided to take a look. The park its self is pretty huge and although I only wandered a small part o...

I picked the one direction I had not yet taken from the hostel and began to walk. After the initial restaurants and the odd shop I was left with what seemed like offices and the people on the street disappeared. On the other side of the road there were further office blocks and in geneal there was nothing of interest to see. I had walked in this direction for about half an hour when I spotted a building I recognised from the brochures and books I had perused. ...

Sorry these entries are a little late. This site was under maintenance for a few days and wouldn't let me update, if I was sensible I would have written my thoughts down then and put them up later but being lazy I waited. So these next couple of entries will have to be from memory, granted it was only a couple of days ago. I had taken a day off for my 5th day and did very little. This was due to the number of blisters I had from 4 days of walking in crappy sho...