Rough guides opening line on Osaka is "Japans equivalent of the elephant man", and it`s true. The first day or two I strolled around, it`s impossible to think anything but this place is ugly. Compared to Fukuoka or Tokyo this place is like a street market. The shops are amazing mind you, some of the most desirable things I`ve seen throughout all japan, but as i lacked the budget to go shopping it was somewhat wasted on me, as was the number of places to eat and drink, as again I really didn`t have to budget to treat myself to expensive foods nightly. The people here as well had a slightly different attitude compared to the rest of the places I`d visited, people crossed roads on a red light, people bang into one another, fashion is taken to a new level of extreme, girls even showing shoulders, which although none sound like a big deal, for japan it really goes against the grain.. everyone has this slight edge to them and with it also came the first littering I saw since arriving (on a side note Osaka has the best looking population of any place I`ve ever visited, the place is a cat walk of a city)
But yet the more time you spend here, the more u grow to have a soft spot for the place, if I could pick up any city and stick it to the side of the UK, it`d be Osaka.............no that`s a lie it`d be Tokyo but it`s that sort of place. Love to live here but to sight see it`s a no-no.
For that reason the day before leaving for China I popped over to Takarazuka, the birth place of Tezuka who created Astro Boy and therefore the birthplace of Manga and Japanese animation (anime) It`s a tiny place and I`d only gone to see the manga museum really but the sun was out and as a trip away from Osaka it was a nice half day, plus on my return I checked into a capsule hotel, it was my last night and I wanted to give it a go you know. I mean watch the video, but I slept awfully. I`d once again bumped into the couple from Hiroshima who were doing the boat ride tomorrow and had a drink with a few other Brits as well, but in terms of sleep, no way! It reminded me way to much of hospital, the hard bed, the crappy pillow and especially the scrub like robes you have to put on. Probably not the best thing when you know you`re spending the next few days on a boat but it was a laugh and an experience.
Welcome,
to yet another travel blog!
This is the second time I’ve wrote this intro thing. I wrote one trying way too hard to sound the way I wish I could write. The truth is though, since my GCSE’s I haven’t had to do any proper writing what-so-ever. I did all art A-level as well as an art degree and now work as a graphic designer.
Hopefully it turns out alright, I’m going to try to update as much as possible and if you need to email me privately I’ll be checking my mails every week or so, so just click the mail button above. If the writing becomes too painful then you can go straight to all the photo’s from the "Pictures" link at the top, as will all my videos.
Cheers to anyone who ends up reading this, although I’m sure it’ll become a spam paradise of abuse from friends and work colleagues..cya all in a year or so :D
This is the second time I’ve wrote this intro thing. I wrote one trying way too hard to sound the way I wish I could write. The truth is though, since my GCSE’s I haven’t had to do any proper writing what-so-ever. I did all art A-level as well as an art degree and now work as a graphic designer.
Hopefully it turns out alright, I’m going to try to update as much as possible and if you need to email me privately I’ll be checking my mails every week or so, so just click the mail button above. If the writing becomes too painful then you can go straight to all the photo’s from the "Pictures" link at the top, as will all my videos.
Cheers to anyone who ends up reading this, although I’m sure it’ll become a spam paradise of abuse from friends and work colleagues..cya all in a year or so :D
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