Out accomodation is actually located in the midst of red light district, with many old buildings with young chinese and japanese girls waving at us. From the look of the neighbourhood, seems to suggest that the area has been full of aibiki yados (something like love hotel of old days) for a long, long time.
Less than 5 minutes walk from the district is a local shopping arcade which already have everything essential and more, and we were thinking, like,
"Hey, this is THE REAL Osaka" isn't it?" , yet it was only a small part of it.
Side alleyways.
Walking across a river, of which I don't know the name,
Walked pass a local school, a few parks,
and supermarkets,
we were there.
It turned out that what we thought was a market, was just an average sized supermarket. Our consolation was that it was close to Nanba, about 1.2K away.
From there on, it was a real tourist experience.
It felt like we were in Shibuya again, just that people in Osaka are heaps more friendly and helpful. We enjoyed the street performances outside Takashimaya department store and then explored shopping arcades right, left and centre, and headed to Dotonbori, which is the real centre of Osaka tourism. I will put up photos I took on the way to and from once we are back in Melbourne.
We nearly got lost few times today but GPS helped me a lot. With the portable wifi provided, made my day a lot easier. Still, we managed to walk at least 8km, about 3 hours. After days and days of eating out, this long walk was a good workout. I bought enough fruits and vegies (plus eggs and bacon) to last for the rest of our time in Osaka, to maintain our healthy lifestyle at least while we are here.
On the way back to our room.
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