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...

A guy feeding fat cats

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

A ninja hidden behind a poster

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

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:

Hips building

The shopping area:

Zara

One "Tina Turner" free in Osaka

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

Statues covered with moss

This is all today

The next article will be about Palawan, Philippines.