Osaka castle and shopping.

Today we went for a tour with Miho, Katsue and Ikuko. Miho is ReLe's Japanese penpal and Katsue and Ikuko are her friends. We started the day by going shopping near Osaka station, but then we decided to go to see the Osaka castle. We also ate real Japanese food for the first time while being in Japan. Today we ate Okonomiyaki and Takoyaki with fried Yakisoba noodle. It was very delicious and not too expensive(700円 per person).

Osaka castle park was kind of nice, but there were too much people around.
Osaka Castle was a bit to much commercial and it did not have the same good felling about it as the other attractions we have seen so far. The castle was filled with old Japanese wargear(swords, bows and arrows, samurai clothing, etc.) and you were not to take any pictures of them. On the highest floor was a viewing balcony which was the best part of the castle tour.

These drinks really hit the spot after the castle tour.

This is the entrance the ninjas propably use :)



After the Castle tour we went shopping in Osaka with the girls and I found myself a t-shirt.
We toured around many shops and we also visited ビッグカメラ(BIG CAMERA) and Jere bought some lens filter from there. Rele: I bought a circular polarizer filter, it was only 40e (in finland it`s 120-150e)

At the end of the day we went to the Royal Host Family Restaurant. It was a bit expensive(about 2000円) but the food was great. Rele: Yes it was the same price as the fast food in Universal studios, but the place was like in Fransmanni in Finland.

Few pictures from Osaka center.







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