Yesterday morning we made a detour to go and check out the largest wooden building and largest bronze buddah in the world in Nara Park. To say that they were large is an understatement. Colossal perhaps, mega super HUGE... well you get the idea. The surprise of the day is that Nara Park is inhabited by hundreds of wild but human friendly deer. Hundreds of bambis just roaming around getting all up in your grill. Very cute.
We then moved on to Osaka. Bad idea. From the moment we set foot in this town I`ve had a bad feeling. The train station is like nothing I have ever seen, it stretches for blocks and blocks and connects with department stores underground so before you know it you`re 5 blocks from the station and have no idea how to get back. I guess they don`t call it Osaka Station City for nothing. So lost we did get, it took a man kind enough to wakl us 3 blocks before we could get our bearings. They are such super nice people!
And then the hotel. I swears we are smack bang in the red light district. There are love hotels and `massage palours` as far as the eye can see. Jazzy even got given some tissues with some scantily clad ladies and an address on the outside. Classy. The hotel itself is fine, but there is a truck that keeps going past with a loud speaker advertising adult entertainment, and I`m pretty sure I saw a pimp fight out the window this morning.
So last night we headed to Namba, the other city central. It was..... well it just was. It had all the lights going full bore, giant crabs on building signs pinching their pinchers, some kind of American statue/robot doing American things..... but most impressively..... It had Fugu. A giant iluminated pufferfish guided us to it`s dangerous goodness. And good it was, we had Fugu Sushi. Nomnomnomnomnom.
Today we are getting the hell out of here and heading to MONKEY ISLAND!!! (Miyajima) for a little rest.
BWAHAHAHAHHAHA tissues for Jazzy... Only you two would end up in the red light district!
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