Osaka/Kyoto Collection

Giant Whale in a Giant shopping centre.....
Japanese Subway, abit different as you can have shrimp if you want but they have a lack of sauces, ie no southwest
Yet another drunk Japanese guy telling us a joke in English that went on for about 10 minutes and still wasnt funny lol
Attempted photo of a downpour that lasted 10 minutes, still extremley humid though
Ill store, only in Japan
This is in Kyoto, its the old imperial palace where the Shogun lived
We went in but like most places you cant take photos, the main thing I remeber was that the floors squeaked so assasins would be unabale to sneak in to attack the Shogun
Tree
Palace Gardens
Some more of the Gardens

The mote which surrounds teh Palace
Elevated view of the grounds
This was in Umeda central Osaka, on the way to teh Umeda Sky Building, alot of new buildings are being constructed in the area and cranes are everywhere
The Umeda Sky Building from the bottom, sadly my batteries decided to run out after this and I didnt take my spare, il be going back again as the views were amazinga nd is only a 15minute walk from where im staying.
This was taken today, its Osaka's museum of art, behind it is the science museum, we are going back tomorrow as today was a public holiday so was closed. We met a Japanese woman who when I said spoke very good english replied she was an English teacher, so that explained it lol

We decided to walk to Osaka castle insted of getting the tube, on teh way all the trees has these husks of large insects of which I cant remember teh name.
They looked cool and I got to use the macro setting on my camera
This is what they came from, these things are about 2 inches long
This the first mote of two which surrounds Osaka castle
Osaka castle

Abit closer
Me, again you couldnt take photos inside, but you could get to the roof
Osaka
Dragon fish tile
More of Osaka

Tomorrow we are heading back to the museums, and ive been slowly reading the Akira manga, the set of 6 is in the hostel im in, its alot more detailed than the film, im basically up to where teh film ends yet im only on the 3rd book of 6.

Also half way though stir of echos, good book so far, Japanese tv is abit rubbish im reading alot more than usual.

Im heading back to Tokyo in the next couple of days to catch up on what I missed via the night bus to save money, also hope to climb fuji before I leave.