Okay, picking up where we left off. By the way, forgive me for not having many night photos at clubs and stuff to share - the flash on my camera was broken during the weekend, and I could really only take good photos during the day. Suck. Maybe when everyone shares photos, I'll have some better ones to share. Anyway. We woke up at 9:00 AM at the capsule hotel, and again, the best way to describe this hotel is Functional. It's not a place you'd want to spend a significant amount of time. It worked as a landing pad, though, and that's what we needed. A couple of the guys were significantly hung over (i.e. still drunk), but they didn't let that stop them from going sightseeing that day. I have to respect that.
Can you feel the pain?
The first thing we did was hit the Subway for breakfast. Yes, that's Subway, as in sub sandwiches. I didn't know they had Sub shops over here, but it was cool that they did. It was nice to have a little bit of pseudo-healthy American food to help the hangovers. After that, we proceeded to the planned destination for that day: Osaka Suiyokukan (aquarium). The aquarium is about 7 stories tall, replicates roughly a dozen different habitat types, and houses the largest fish in the world - the pacific whale shark. Check this link for a better description of the aquarium: http://www.kaiyukan.com/eng/index.htm
Before hitting the aquarium, though, there was a huge Ferris wheel that we saw dominating the landscape, so we went up in that to check out the Osaka skyline. The first pic in the previous post is us in the ferris wheel cab. Another pic:
Osaka is a harbor town, and the Ferris wheel and aquarium are right on the harbor. Thus, the boats.
Sorry, but it's getting late. I have to go. I'll try to post more tomorrow, and complete the chronicle of Osaka. Ja!
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