An incredible and packed today.
We started out the day with a trip to a Japanese lesson with Kaneko-san. Ben listened to my unintelligible confusion interspersed with snippets of Kaneko-san's attempts to communicate with him in Spanish and English. I gave him a long-overdue cookie gift from Thailand (claimedly well-preserved until December), and it was either this debt of giving, or his interest in practicing English, or his unpredictable hospitality and kindness, or some other unknown factor that suggested we all have lunch together after the end of the lesson. We went to a nearby "Gasto" restaurant which claimed American Fair (or claimed to be an American Fair? I'm not sure I got it), and we spoke in Japanese and broken English. The kid a few tables over ate fries with chopsticks.
After lunch, Ben and I headed to Osaka to pick up our hotel and train tickets for our Tokyo trip. We went to the Osaka Castle and then walked to Shinsaibashi to a cat cafe, a curiosity I've held for awhile which was waiting to be birthed by Ben. The cats were cute, their love was classy. To find them we had to navigate the most Bohemian area in Japan I've yet encountered. This being said before a trip to Tokyo
We then continued our walk through Shinsaibashi, taking in the people, the sights, the stores, and of course, some takoyaki. Ben discovered a true liking of this Japanese street food. It's pretty delicious.
Tomorrow we head to Tokyo for yet more adventures. It's been a packed trip so far and more, much more, to come.....
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| Neko no Jikan (the cat cafe, its name means, "Cat Time") |
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| enjoying the black kitten |
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| smooshy face |
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| a feeling that happiness comes.... |
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| cat love |
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| the window cat |
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| smile takoyaki |
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| love at first bite |
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| Ben and the Glico Man |
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