purejournal: Osaka Japan

Back from Japan!

Went to mainly these few places in Kansai Japan:
1. Osaka Namba/ Dotonbori/ Shinsaibashi area + Universal Studios Japan
2. Nara (experienced snow!)
3. Kyoto

Stayed at the Dotonbori Hotel throughout. The hotel was quite okay, rooms were clean, they had my fave type of toilet bowls (!), and they even gave each female guest Shiseido amenities, and the toiletries were all from Shiseido. The toilets are a little bigger than those on the cruise.

Learnt/ noticed a few things:
1. Osaka's people stand to their right, not left (like in Tokyo) in train stations' escalators
2. Though Kansai's train lines are less complicated than Tokyo's, we could still get lost HAHA
3. Their bus is like China's, enter from the back, exit by the front
4. The people there are extremely polite and helpful. :D :D
5. The people there walk extremely FAST! VERY VERY FAST!
6. The young women there have a standard way of dressing- leggings with high heels and a huge overcoat.
7. They have so many Uniqlo stores there
8. Many cosmetic stores there too!! (With shelves of beauty products costing so much cheaper than in Sg)

Things that I love(in no particular order):
1. The polite people
2. Their high-tech toilet bowls HAHAHAHA
3. Shopping for souvenirs at the Glico shop and the Universal Studios store
4. Rides in Universal Studios
5. Their cool vegetable drinks and chocolate bread!

Unexpected rewards:
1. Experienced snow in Nara
2. Bought boxes of Shiroi Koibito from Kansai Int Airport!!!
3. Bought some Shiseido toiletries from the one of the cosmetic stores
4. Experienced a unique farewell at the Kansai Int Airport from the JAL crew. (Since it was Christmas eve when we left) They even stood at the runway to bid us goodbye!
5. Some bird pooped on Shirin's umbrella at Nara. HAHA :) I was laughing all the way.

Not so good points:
1. Their cold windy weather.. (The wind was so strong in Nara that we had to wear masks)
2. Our feet hurt from all the walking
3. We were kind of lost in the fast paced life in Osaka (since the people walked so fast that we had to try not to block their way esp in train stations)