We decided to get some sleep and so we didn`t get up until late. Hung around the hostel until 3, did some washing. Which actually made the clothe dirtier than they were before due to the extreme amount of fluff in the dryer. We hit upon the good plan of going out late in the day, staying out for dinner and then going to a karaoke bar straight from there. So we got the subway to Shinsaibashi and wandered round the shops for a while. It was a bit pointless as we w...

We decided that as we were running out of things to do (and we were getting more and more fed up of people staring at us because we`re not Japanese!) we would go to Kyoto, which is a more touristy city about half an hour away from Osaka.After attempting to get up early in order to get there early and failing miserably. We finally made it to the station to get the train. After some confusion with the train, we ended up on the local train instead of the rapid one s...

Today we walked up through Den Den Town to get to Namba to see if we could get tickets to a show at the puppet theatre. After trying to decipher some Japanese, we discovered there were no shows except a film about puppets on friday afternoon.Then we went down the road to see if we could get tickets for the Lost Prophets from Namba Hatch, the actual venue didn't sell them and they set us to the convenience store. We gave up on that when the store didn't lo...

Went to Universal Studios, which was as it always is, great fun. Though all of it was in Japanese so spent the whole day having no idea what was going on (as I spend most days!) Also it was only open from 10am til 5pm and the rides only from 11 til 4.30 which was pretty rubbish in my opinion, though we did see Snoopy as well as Elmo and the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street so all was not lost! On the train on the way back we encountered a very strange (and ver...

We saw on a poster on the wall of the hostel saying that there was a bean throwing festival at a temple nearby. So blatently we were going to go to it, couldn`t miss an opportunity like that.We were talking to a Canadian guy in the hostel in the morning, who Kate is obsessing over and told him to go. He left about the same time as us but went in a different direction.It was only our second day we managed to get on the wrong train three times. It was horrendous. W...