Ohayou! Unfortunately, we didn't see an orangutan today. But what we have done has been really great. First we strolled through DenDen Town, the geekiest part of Osaka, where the pachinko slot arcades and dvd shops rule the roost. After that, we ended up in Amerika-mura, with shops after shops advertising American fashion in a really well designed open-air mall. We returned to the hostel after this, but it was still only noon. What to do, what to do... Well, ...

Ohayou! Today has been really fun, but really bizzare at the same time - yesterday, when we were leaving the train station on our way to the hostel, Joe spotted a flyer; "Japan Footbag Championships". The final was today - and we went. Footbag is a sport which uses a small beanbag, and the players do a range of tricks with it - it's a lot more interesting than my description makes it sound, and really really hard. I can say that with authority since t...

Ohayou! Today we left Hiroshima and traveled to Osaka, Japan's "second city" or its "anti-capital". It's actually really great here - bustling, busy, but not over-empowering. There's a huge train-line running overhead which is in itself an interesting piece of art! Today we went wandering along the shops; a 2.6km stretch of fashion and food, all set out in a straight line! Most of it was high-end posh stuff, so there wasn't much to attract o...