Thursday, January 04, 2007

2007 in Japan


We spontaniously decided to go to Osaka on friday, stayed up all night planning it, and then left that moring at 5am. Without any sleep we were eating Japanese pizzas downtown Osaka the next day. We spent the night wandering around Namba, and then retired to our business hotel in shin-imamia, which is also refered to as mafia town. The next day I called up Satomi and she picked us up to show us around town. We checked out the Osaka castle, America-town, Namba, and later went for an amazing spread of sashimi and sa-ki. New Years Eve was spent in a reggae bar drinking Jack Daniels, and then meeting up with people in Triangle Square. The next day we went to Kyoto and checked out temples, and a food festival where I had the best fried chicken of my life.


Osaka Castle


Street near Namba


The Golden Temple


A small shrine we found on a mountain side in Kyoto


And of course, Japanese Hip-Hop