Woke up after sleeping well, all the activity is helping. Filled up with breakfast then walked down the hill to the bus stop to get a bus to the airport to drop off the bags. The receptionist told us the bus to get to the airport but it didn’t stop where she told us so we just got the next one into the city, got off and asked some kid who told us the one to get.
Dropped off the bags and figured we’d get on the same bus back but it set off in a different direction.
Kept an eye on google maps but it didn’t look as if it was going back to the place we wanted so we got off where there were a few shops and a Starbucks – had a coffee. We only had a couple of hours before we had to check in so just went into a department store (bought a usb charger because I forgot to bring mine), then got a cab to the airport. Through check in and security pretty quickly, looked around for something to eat – nothing. A couple of duty free shops but no cafes or anywhere to eat. Song managed to find a place that sold sandwiches so had a couple of those.
Plane was packed but we had an empty seat in between us, and the flight was only an hour and a half.
Got through immigration and security quickly again and then on the train for about 40 minutes, change to the metro and a 5 minute walk to the hotel.
Dropped off the bags and went out for something to eat, it was now about 20:30.
Found a street that was basically all restaurants, but had a hard time deciding where to go – there was no English menus and some had photos of the food that didn’t look very nice, but we took a chance and popped into one. The waiter didn’t speak much English. Song ordered a tofu soup thing and I pointed to a picture of a piece of meat on a skewer and used google translate for chicken, which I discovered was pronounced chikin in Japanese. We also ordered a salad and rice.
He brought out the food – the tofu soup and one chicken skewer. I’d expected the dish to have a few more so ordered 3 more.
Meanwhile there was a very annoying and loud drunk guy with 2 women a few tables away. Not a pleasant meal, and my remaining food took ages to come I wondered if he was hatching the eggs.
Popped into a supermarket on the way back to the smallest hotel room in Japan.
Visiting Osaka castle tomorrow then onto Kyoto for 3 nights.
