Day 5 in West Japan, day 2 in Osaka. Today was fine weather and we were heading Osaka Kaiyukan and Souht Osaka, Shinseikai area.Before heading off, we had our breakfast at the hotel lobby. Not bad ah, check out our buffet breakfast!
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| Typical Japanese buffet breakfast |
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| Curry Rice, not bad! |
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| The cat guarding the hotel lobby |
We hold the Aquarium day pass, so it was an entry ticket + 1 day subway free pass. I suggest those who are interested to go to the aquarium to buy this pass because it's cheaper considering the subway tickets to and fro and visiting some other places around Osaka while in Japan.
The Aquarium could be reach via walking leisurely 5 mins from the subway station. The most prominent icon is when you see the ferry wheel right in front of you. We simply speed our morning just visiting to the aquarium and the Tempozan market place.
The exterior of the Aquarium. Our family enjoys going to aquarium. Whenever we have a chance to go on F&E trip, we try to find the aquarium at that country and visit it. So far we tried aquarium at KL, HK, Melbourne, Japan and of course, Singapore. I like fishes.
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| Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan |
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| See the bright sunlight? |
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| Jaws |
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| We bought that blue whale shark for her, cute bo? |
Entering the Aquarium. Check out some of the beautiful sea crature, whether mammals or tropical fishes, or fishes of underwater world . They were cute and beautiful!
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| Potato cod? |
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| Eel |
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| Spider crab |
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| The highlight of the aquarium is definately the spotty whale shark |
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| Stingray, nice? |
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| Mola Mola, the famous one now! |
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| What's that new app game? About me? |
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| "Is she taking photo of us?" |
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| Narwhale? Seal? Cute? |
After visiting the Aquarium, we decided to walk to the building next to it, which is the Tempozan Market place to have some bites. There was a nice food streets which display the old fashion period of the Naniwa.
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| Tempozan Market lace |
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| Original 元祖Takoyaki ball, no mayo, no tako sauce. |
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It was about time to leave Tempozan area, it was about 3pm after sitting there and walking around the street towards the subway station. Since we have to the free day pass, we decided to head South Osaka, is Shinseikai area and chiang-chiang Machi. It was said that this side has the old Osaka look.
Not difficult to find, we came to Shinseikai and decided to have early dinner. We chance upon the shop Daruma, and decided to try their famous No 2nd dip yakitori sticks.
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| Daruma Yakitori No 2nd Dip Sauce |
It was indeed nice, YUM. And then since we were here, we wanted to go all the way to Hitachi tower and have a good loo at the Shinseikai tower. We did not go up. It was enough to see from afar and below. We walked around and went into convenience shop to get some medications. Then we decided to head back to Namba.
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| Shinseikai Hitachi Tower |
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| Chiang chiang Machi |
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| Billiken |
Again, we are here at Namba. After walking and trying out the famous Takoyaki balls, fried chicken and Horai 551 Bao, we again landed in McD for a rest. The man bought burgers for the children and also got 1 triangle pie (filled with melted chocolate) to try. Not bad indeed!
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| Sankkaku Pie |
Walking around before we head back the street of Shinsaibashi back to our hotel. (Rather than turning back to Namba stn and take 1 stn to Shinsaibashi, rather walk right? That was about 500m)
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| Meneko 招招手，Takarakuji, Tio Beh Bio, HUAT ah! |
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| When you talk about Osaka, you talk about Takoyaki |
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| Golden Dragon Ra-men |
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| Along the street of Dotonburi, we appeared on the Kanban! Cool. |
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| 外面的月亮真的比较圆吗？ |
Guess where we were heading the next day?
