The next day we headed to Osaka. We wandered around looking for what was considered to be some of the best Okonomiyaki in Osaka, that Google Maps thought had permanently closed. It turned out google was wrong because their map pin was in the wrong place, and presumably a bunch of people that couldn't find it had flagged it as closed down.
The guy who ran it was friendly, and spoke a little english. He had a lot of foreign visitors come and leave him little trinkets or some of their currency which he had displayed around the shop.
We were seated near this little guy. He's been sitting about 2 feet from a hot plate for some time now, and his fur has developed a luxurious coat of slightly burnt oil.
We had looked at a map and decided we would walk through a nearby park, and then visit a shrine on the other side. As we were paying we asked the Okonomiyaki guy what he thought we should see. He suggested we visit the aquarium and see the whale shark being fed. He made a wide gesture with his arms to indicate the whale shark's mouth and grinned. We thanked him for lunch and went off to see the shrine.
The shrine
Apparently the shrine has big problems with Pokemon Go players. This is because, as everyone knows, people who play Pokemon Go have no soul.
Suckers... this is just my Osaka aquarium post from 2016 reposted...
Given this is Mel's first time in Japan and that it seems mean to go "No. You get to go to all the bottom of the barrel things you look at when it's your 7th visit and you've already seen everything good" I suspect there's going to be a bunch of posts that are "We did a thing I already did, here's what has changed/is new". If you don't like it, go to Japan yourself and write your own blog,.. with Blackjack and Hookers...
Any way, the Aquarium:
A quick scan of my last aquarium post doesn't seem to have this squid tank
A display of the tank material. It is as thick as two Mel hands.
Jelly fish, I recognise them from Dave the Diver.
These comb jelly fish light up just before that zap you with electricity. At least they do in Dave the Diver.
This exhibit on coral was new
Look at dead coral and be sad
But not too sad. Look at the colors in this not dead coral.
I eat coral.
I also eat coral. I'm at least tasty though, as long as I haven't eaten too much of the deadly neurotoxin coral.
We left later than last time, so discovered that the stuff just outside lights up.
We stayed overnight at the Airport to catch a flight at stupid o'clock in the morning. This is the Ibis Styles. It is in the same building as the Novotel and has basically the same rooms, but is $40 a night cheaper. I don't know either.
Who are these women. Where do they go? Does he sell them off to the Yakuza? Or does he just have a fetish for inflicting Cairns airport on them?
This is our plane. It needs a new windscreen wiper blade. They don't keep spares in Cairns, so they had to fly one from Melbourne. They didn't know before we took of, so it wasn't on our flight.
As a result, our flight to Osaka was delayed by about three and a half hours. This burger is actually not too bad for Cairns airport food. It did cost about $25, but the airline gave us a $10 food voucher for falsely imprisoning us in Cairns for 3.5 hours, so there's that.
In the air eventually. Taste the business class-y goodness
What do you mean "why are there animatronic dinosaurs checking us into the hotel?" This is Japan. Animatronic dinosaurs do everything here.
