Osaka
From Ed, Monday 12 May 2008 à 12:10 :: Japan :: #157 :: rss
Konitchiwa my friends !!
Time for me to tell you a bit about our crazy awesome trip to japan in april.
First Osaka!
Osaka is a big city, young, busy, modern, crazy, lots of people everywhere, a good start for the trip
Fashion is crazy here. For the girls: mini shorts, mini skirts, crazy haircut, long painted and customized nails, lots of different styles, from the classic salary girl look, to the excentric kogaru look (blond and taned).
Food was really good, we had sushi bar with octopus sushi! you pay by the plate, 100, 200, 300Yen the plate, it depends of the colour of your plate
Of course the 300Y are better sushis, the price of your pile of plates rise quickly, so watch out! But still, its way cheaper than in Paris 
We tried the Okonomiyaki there too, some kind of omelet with cabbage and eggs and sometime noodles. Someone cook it for you in front of you on your table, its really fun to see and really good!
We went to the world's largest giant wheel! Very kewl view of the city up there at night time!
We went to the top of a crazy scyscrapper to take a 360 look at the city.
Went to huge mega shopping centre (for girls only!) ^^, kicked some ass at SEGA center.
Discover the pachinko: it's a slot game with iron ball (a bit like a flipper) each one of them make a loud noise, but they are hundreds of them in a pachinko room. You just cant stand here more than a minute, its insanely loud!! ...but they don't seem to mind seem to stay in these places for hours!
We tried the purikura, a machine that take photos of you and your school girl friends, that you can customize. Very girly kawaii thing, you only see girls in these stuff. It's very popular for the teenagers there. We got kicked out of some of them that were forbidden to guys 
We stayed 2 nights at Carpe Diem House, a japanese style house with a nice garden.
Grom had his moment of glory speaking japanese a few times.

Funny moment : a salary man outside the subway threw his suitcase away and just crashed on the ground dead drunk

More photos from Osaka on my Flickr here
And all Japan's Grom photos here
to be continued...



Comments
1. On Tuesday 13 May 2008 at 17:27, from lm
2. On Tuesday 13 May 2008 at 17:59, from lm