Although Xian had
fully recovered but I was still nervous when he coughed….However few days after
his recovery. I had gotten an undeniable offer. A friend working in a travel
agency had told me that she had some very cheap air ticket to Osaka. A few tourists
had backed out last minute prior to the journey and there were a few tickets to
spare. The price was extremely low after communicating with Xian and Yun about
their leave…I had taken the offer.
It was a short
journey as Xian and Yun was still schooling despite of the summer holiday.
Luckily Monday and Friday is half day and they felt that it was acceptable to absence
for the class.
Choice of lodging
was limited as the journey starts in less than 1 week. 4 persons room, nearby
MRT had truly restricted my selection. I had however got a 1 star rated lodging
which had 8-9/10 rating on booking.com. Since it was a short trip, I had
crossed out Universal studio on my list.
Everything was in
havoc as I had a very short time to prepare for the trip. I had gotten a mobile
wifi machine and some MRT and airport transport ticket via the net. Not much
time to think and I just grabbed whatever I could.
We were able to
hit the airport on time and arrived at the Osaka airport. It was a low cost
carrier and it had landed at the T2 and we would need to travel to T1 for to
pick up the ticket and the airport rail.
The arrival was
late in the evening and we had grabbed some chinese bao( penglai bao store) at
the airport. It was tasty temporary pacified our hunger. I had planned to have
our dinner at YiLan Ramen near the hotel we stayed. The service apartment I had
rented was just a street across Dotonburi. We started our journey at 8:40pm. We
had eaten our dinner at the YiLan Ramen. It was one of its kind but not really
my type of food. We had roved around Dotonburi and SinShaibashi before we
retreated to our room.
Ving was not
feeling well on D2 morning and three of us had gone to breakfast by ourselves.
We had visited a UCC breakfast around the corner for breakfast. The initial
plan was to visit Tensogaku(premier castle) on D2 but Xian wanted to see if we
could get a Nintendo Switch from the local store. We had found that there was a
lucky draw for purchasing at the Big Camera store on that day. The registration
started at 10 and draw done at 11. We had taken a slow tour around the area and
joined the queue at 9:30am. It was a long queue roughly about 600 peoples
turned up to draw for 10 machines.
After the draw,
Ving was still not feeling well. We had changed our plan and headed toward the
Tsutenkaku and Tianwang temple. It was a long hike for us. Xian and Yuan had
enjoyed the trip as I allowed them to try their luck on gacha machine along our
journey.
We had tried
various food shops which recommended by Takagi Naoko in her book during our
walk. It was a long walk of 3km before we could get onto the MRT. With our sore
leg, we had to take rest for 2 hrs before we go for our dinner at 7pm. Ving was
much better that night and we had a good shopping tour along Dotonbori and
Shinshibashi.
Xian was a little
bit upset as our name was not listed on the Big Camera lucky draw.
D3 was a shopping
tour day for Ving. We had also gone to a few gaming shop trying to get a
Switch.
The night ended
late even though we need to get up early for a noon flight back home.
There are lots of
smoker in Japan and most of the Izakaya allow smoking. We had wanted to try out
some Izakaya food but were unable to do so.
It was a new
experience for all of us, short trip which was very compact. Tasty food and
walk till you cramp road trip. Everyone had returned with loads of stuffs…except
me.
Well, we are
looking forward to another trip in the future.
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