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Osaka-jin at Yasaka

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The whole day today Chie and I have been talking about shooting Osaka people (with our fingers). Just to see if they really are as in the YouTube video.

After going to Ginza to say hello to a friend who ad volunteered for Tokyo Marathon we went back to Naka-Meguro to have dinner at Yasaka.


Chie & Okoshi-san (coach/manager & runner)

It turned out that one of the people working at Yasaka was from Osaka. So Chie shot him and stabbed him with an imaginary sword. And he died. Both from a gunshot and from the sword. While working 😀

Another story about people from Osaka was actually on CNN the other day. 24 years ago Hanshin Tigers, a baseball team from Osaka, won the Japanese championship. Osaka people got so happy they threw the statue of Kentucky Fried Chicken founder, Colonel Sanders, in a river in Osaka.

Not a particular exciting event maybe… But since then Hanshin Tigers have not won a championship. And Osaka people believes it is because of the statue. So since then they have been searching in the river to find the statue. And this year they found it. That’s why this story was on the Japanese news the other day, even CNN broadcasted the story. And Osaka people truly believes that this year they will win the baseball championship because they restored the statue.



Going to Osaka

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Today was our last day in Kyoto. Actually we had a plan to stay in Kyoto the whole day but yesterday we changed out minds so instead we checked out and went to Osaka.

We took the Keihan main line from Sanjo station in Kyoto to Yodabashi station in Osaka. From there the Modosuji line to Umeda station, and 15 minutes walk to the J-Hopper youth hostel.

After leaving Jimmy & Emma’s bag at the youth hostel we walked back to the Umeda station and had miso udon for lunch.

In the afternoon we walked to Umeda Sky Building. Took the elevator up to the 35th floor. And the escalator up to the roof top. It was a beautiful day with almost blue sky so it was nice to be about 200 meters on top of Osaka enjoying the great view.


Umeda Sky Building Jimmy & Emma on top of the world

By the way, they say people are crazy in Osaka. And indeed they are. Or would a sane person decide to build a highway straight through a house. Or was this person building the house around the highway?


Crazy building in Osaka Crazy building in Osaka

After exiting the Umeda Sky Building we passed by a model room for the City Tower. We went inside to have a look. It was fun. And the two guys showing us around was really nice. One recognized the craft sweater I was wearing because he had one too. Which he used while ski jumping and cross country skiing.

By 3:15 pm I left Jimmy & Emma alone in the big city Osaka. Hope they can find their way around and enjoy it. I took Shinkansen back to Tokyo.