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Osaka part two

Our second day in Osaka we went to a little coffee shop for breakfast that was 0.1 miles from our hotel.  It ended up being my favorite meal of the trip!  I don't know what magic the owner put in the breakfast but it was delicious.  I had bacon and egg on toast.  It sounds so simple but the flavors were so good I thought I tasted horseradish and husband said dijon.  Plus the coffee was superb.  It was so good that we ended up going back the next morning.
On our way back from breakfast we saw a giant purple santa clause, so we went and checked it out.  It was some sort of Christmas Chapel.?!

Then we used the metro system to make our way to the HEP 5 building for our first destination of the day.  We had reservations at the Gudetama cafe!  This flower thing was in one of the stations on our way.  A mall pops up near every train station it seems and photo ops are plentiful.

This is in the HEP 5 building on our way to the Gudetama cafe!

I won't inundate you with too many pictures since I'm sure you saw them on Facebook.  But the Kawaii factor did not disappoint. So cute!!

White curry with cute Gudetama shaped rice.

After this we rode on a ferris wheel that started at a cut out inside the building.  It gave us great views of the city.  So high up!

Then we went to Osaka Castle.  Husband has the picture of the castle on his phone, so you'll have to take my word for it that it was a castle.  We were impressed with the size.  It had 2.5 moats!!  It was so well protected.  I would have felt very safe to live there.

You could go up to the top and look at the views of Osaka.  And then there was a museum inside.  It was so blistery hot that we were pretty much melting down.  Plus, we had walked 8 miles the day before and ended up doing another 8 on this day.
G was so tired that we stopped at combini to get onigiri on our way to the hotel and we just stayed in for the night.  The boys rallied and went back out to get food at Dotonbori.  They had yakitori (meat on sticks).

The next day we decided to do Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan.  Can you believe that they have 2 whale sharks in the aquarium!?!?!  So cool.  It was a neat aquarium.  You started at the top and wound your way down getting lower and lower on the tanks as you went.  There were dolphins and seals and penguins as well as all kind of fish.  This was a nice activity for a day even hotter than the day before.

The pictures really don't do justice on the whale shark.  Sorry.

And there was a big shark for me to get my picture taken with!


Afterward we snagged some lunch before we went back to our home in Suzuka.  The kids had been begging to have a tapioca drink and we finally relented.  We ate at Wendy's in a food court.  I had an umami chicken sandwich and everyone else had burgers.  It was good.  Husband liked it better then Wendy's at home.


This is the aquarium and our last adventure for the trip in Osaka.  There is so much more to see of this city and we are excited to come back.

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