Shots #18 Osaka Pussy

So Osaka hasn’t caught up to the fact that super duper mini skirts are not in fashion anymore like Tokyo has (I told you Osaka rocks) but that doesn’t really have anything to do with this picture… It is a fun fact though :D

YEAH! Meccha Holiday!

OSAKA! It took me too long to get there.. and it is taking every ounce of my willpower to not cancel my contract and go there! Yeah I have nothing to do… yet… but I will make a plan… OK, Sanity returns…
Yeah. WOW! I have heard from many a gaijin how awesome kansai is… NONE of them have ever been to cape town.. so none of them know the half of it! Take the best of Cape Town (I am a Jozi boy so the mountain doesn’t really factor into it), merge it with the best of Japan and thats what Kansai… and in particular Osaka is. Sure Kobe looks like CT and even has a mountain and beaches (more of that in another post) but Osaka has the vibe.
We met up with Keiko and Takeyasu at the Sky Building in Umeda. Its an architectural marvel and we marveled at it.. but our tummies were like SCREW YOU, so into the basement we delved. of to the side of a hard to find passage way we found a hole in the wall okonomiyaki shop called KIJI. The master bade us welcome and as we waited for a free table he came to give us our orders… yes. He didn’t ask us what we wanted… He told us. and we said yes. He was right of course. it hit the spot and the taste was mindblowing. but yeah what an experience.



After that it was off to Shinsaibashi to find ourselves diggs for the night.
That was only the first few hours in the city that I would someday like to call home…

<I LOVE KANSAI>

Shots #17 GIANT PENIS!

A tribute to one of the greatest forces of nature on this planet!

2 Hours in Kyoto

We left Tokyo at 5:21 using the Seishun Juhachi Kippu.

8 and a half hours later we were at Kyoto Station.

Kyoto station is a modern marvel. A beautiful piece of architecture and civil engineering that as a concept needs to be expanded on in future buildings… especially in the new ‘lets be green hippie veggie eaters’ world.

 

Once you leave the station however you get transported back in time. I honestly didn't see too much but what I saw was rather spectacular. We hit up one of the many many famous sights… Kinkaku-ji.

 

The pictures don’t do it Justice… You have to go there.. You just have to!

 

It was a rather mind-blowing start to what would become one of the more awesome experiences of my life. Sadly I couldn’t see Ginkaku-ji or Kiyumizudera… but I intend to visit Kansai again soon enough so I will see it all in good time.

 

<I love Kansai>

Yeah. Why am I going back to Gunma?

Yeah. Kansai. For the WIN!


-- Blogged in the field.

Location:１丁目,Kōbe City,Japan

The big blue

Sunshine and salty air. Suma. Kobe. Japan. The ocean


-- Blogged in the field.

Location:１丁目,Kōbe City,Japan

In soviet Osaka the bacon brings home YOU!

Now if all the fine fine women speaking Kansai-ben in Osaka is not your thing, you can always go here.





-- Blogged in the field.

Location:１丁目,Ōsaka City,Japan

Because I am a "douchebag''

I am not really in Kyoto. Nooooo. I made it all up just because I don't want to play boy racer at Jeevy's go cart event. Apparently I think that highly of him.









I will post about this in full later with pics from the big camera.

-- Blogged in the field.

Location:Kyōto City,Japan

Shoyu salty balls

Curry Udon at Toyohashi Eki. Surprisingly good. But the experience was marred by the spillage of Shoyu (soy sauce) on my bag. My boxers now have brown, salty stains on them.

But damn that was a good curry udon.

-- Blogged in the field.

Location:Gamagōri City,Japan

You get what you pay for.

First change. Switched from the soft and comfy squishy reclining seats that eased us along the southern kanto coastline. Back on locals. The hard part of the journey has begun.





-- Blogged in the field.

Location:Shizuoka City,Japan