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First stop before Philippines: Osaka

I could get some inspiration after all the emails and comments received to write about the travel to Philippines… better late than never.

I’d like to start with this small article about Osaka, the city from where we started our journey.

Osaka hadn’t awaken a lot of interest in me, maybe because the tropothousands of hours in a bus to get to Osaka from Tokyo or maybe because how ugly is the city (no offense, it is really ugly!) but some people say the night life is far better than Tokyo’s.

The only thing with a bit of interest is the Osaka Castle:

Inside, the castle is a museum of Japanese History in which it’s not allowed to take pictures. There were some Katanas, samurai armors and japanese art. It was fine, but it’s not so good to go to Osaka just to see it.

There were really weird people in the surrounding area of the castle…

A monk close to the castle


A guy having a walk with his parrot in a park full of cats...


Un tipo dándole de comer a los gatos gordos...

A guy feeding fat cats


Sin comentarios

If you smell my ass I'll smell yours...


Un ninja camuflado detrás de un cartel

A ninja hidden behind a poster


Una horda de japas tras el concierto de un idol.

An horde of "japas" after a concert of a Japanese Idol


Un hombre pescando en el foso de barro del castillo

A man fishing in the mud moat of the castle. I can't imagine what the hell could he fish in there...

Having a walk we got to the city center and we found some strange things like this building:

El edificio Hips (caderas)

Hips building

The shopping area:

Zara

Zara


Un Tina Turner suelto por Osaka

One "Tina Turner" free in Osaka

We also find a small temple among skycrapers that had statues covered with moss:

Estatuas cubiertas de musgo

Statues covered with moss

This is all today :-)

The next article will be about Palawan, Philippines.