Spa World

Yesterday we went shopping to Dotonbori, and bought SHOES. Okay I bought only one pair but I love them to bits! Mine are the ones on the right, Mia bought two pairs and a handbag WHICH IS PINK inside!

Then, well, we came back to our hotel and ate takoyaki (...again) and started for SPA WORLD! It was made of awesome, just like we had predicted. Omg. I was speechless when entering the spa-area. GO CHECK THE PICTURES ON THE WEBSITE and fall in love and come to Osaka. (We were on the Europe side as it's for women on odd months, for men on even ones and vice versa on the Asian side.)

AND.

On the European side.

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THERE WAS AN AREA TITLED "FINLAND" WITH SAUNA AND "LAKE WATER" XDDD

Like, if that's not MADE OF WIN I don't know what is! We were running between the lake and sauna and laughing at directing the distraught locals who went for the low-temperature sauna (probably not even a real one -I think it has to be over 70 degrees to actually be a sauna?) and then were shocked as the water was cold, not that wonderful temperature of 40 degrees celcius.

AND. I have to say this.

It was only 1000yen, which means UNDER 10 EUROS. IN TOTAL.

We're going again tomorrow. End of conversation.

But moving on to today (unless you wish to hear a tribute to Spa World). We went to the park near Osaka Castle and actually hanged out! We were just sitting there with our high-brow AMPM konbini onigiris' and reading manga or whatever. So wonderful *---* It was warm but not too hot and oh yes we so need to do this more.

Today we're still going out to eat somewhere (preferably soon, as I am hungry kthxbye) but we've yet to decide where~

But tomorrow it's day in Spa World and evening in Dotonbori, probably.

Lazy Osaka

Some may have noticed the lack of entries during the last week or so. We arrived to Osaka on Tuesday and I have a trump card of THE INTERNET WASN'T WORKING. Well, maybe it was working and we were just  a bit lazy. I won't concede to anything because we had a REASON.

Well, nothing of especial interest happened during the first days here, just you know, hanging around IN OSAKA and in Dotonbori (the local shopping district we're visiting again today!), visited one of the worlds largest aquariums, Osaka Floating Garden, Nara aso.

Like, no biggie.

Well anyway.

On Wednesday we went to the aquarium. It had 14 floors. Enough said.

On Thursday we went to Osaka Floating Garden. It was architecturally one of a kind. Enough said.

Yesterday, Friday, we were in Nara and visited the shrines (although we refused to pay the entrence fee to most of them -we'd be pennyless by now if we hadn't, so we just hanged around in the area) and this one with the HUGE-ASS BUDDHA. And with my uncanny explanatory abilities it just might be better to introduce you to the place through an actual photograph.

FYI, the name of the temple was Tōdai-ji and the height of that Buddha is just short of 15m. It was HUGE. Who the hell had the thought process and materials to make it during the EIGHTH CENTURY?

Other than that there were about half-a-million smaller shrined but we didn't visit (did happily pay 500yen to see this Buddha though) and tame deer everywhere.

I wanted to add videos (mainly of the Pacific Ocean -part of the aquarium...) but the internet is so slow that after waiting for 45 minutes for it to load the friggin vid, I gave up and decided I'make the videos public later.

Also the explanations on this entry are bad. I know. But we're leaving in a second to GO SHOPPING and then to OSAKA SPAWORLD *wwwwww*