Osaka Castle

A bunch of British girls came to the hostel we were staying in. We thought it wouldn’t be that bad. They went out drinking Thursday night, and came back. 1 of them snores really loud, and she knew that. She didn’t want to sleep with the rest of the girls that night because she didn’t want to wake them up, but decided it was alright to wake me up and keep me up all night…

On Friday morning, really early since I wasn’t able to sleep, we decided to go to some park, not really having an idea of what was there. We took the subway and popped out near Crystal Building

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I look over to the side and see

Yay, a castle, lets head there. It took some time to walk there:

The castle area was surrounded by two rivers like this one:

We eventually got there:

We were able to enter for only about 600 yen, so we did. There are 8 floors, most of them were museum stuffs. But on the 8th floor, we were able to look out from the top of the castle.

This is the rest of the area in the Osaka castle place.

One of those statue things on top.

Where we walked from.

It was fun going there, and the first place in Japan we went that makes you think of Japan.

I was really worn out then, but we headed to the anime store 1 last time. After that, we rested for the rest of the day.

That night, to prevent the British girl from sleeping in my area, the girl with me, slept in the bunk where that British girl slept, and we blocked the other beds and ladders with our stuff. We were going to head out early anyway. We were first going to go straight to school from where we were, but didn’t want to risk getting lost with all of our stuff. We headed back to the airport so the Kansai Gaidai pickup could take us there. We easily found our way back to the airport.

The next post will be of the Seminar houses, school, and homestay house.

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