Tuesday, August 23… Avalon and I have not been to downtown Osaka yet. She wasn’t feeling well when the boys ventured down with the Biagi Family or when they rode the train there the other day. Kaiyo really wants her to see the endless arcades! It’s another blessed hot day. We rode the bus and the train to Shinsaibashi. I calculated that it’s about $22 each way for all 5 of us to get downtown.
Here are some fun photos from our afternoon in downtown Osaka.
We stopped for dinner at a revolving sushi bar. You just pick up the plates that you want and at the end the server counts your plates and charges you accordingly. The plates ranged from 100 yen to 500 yen each. Simple shrimp or inari sushi was 100 yen and prime fatty tuna was 500 yen. In between were crab tempura, seared yellowtail, fish roe, tuna and avocado rolls, tiny whitebait fish with little black eyes (eeeeww), salmon with mayonnaise (Japanese people love to put mayo on their food), fried octopus, tuna cheeks, corn salad (with mayo!), crab liver and tamago (sweet cooked egg). Above, Halyard is multi-tasking. He is playing Pokemon Go while eating raw WHALE. He said it was oishii! (Delicious) Halyard likes to try things that the rest of us will not touch.
The above photo is for Grandpa Inaba. This location is downstairs from an arcade. These people are literally fishing. They buy a ticket from a machine and get a pole and fish from this pond. There are carp and eel in here. There is a whole wall of photos of people who have caught fish from this pond. There is a sign that says if you want to watch the fishermen, you have to stand on the stairs. Only paid fisherman can go all the way down the stairs! Grandpa, if you come to Japan we are taking you here! (Ditto Chan!)
All done for today! Back at the bus stop waiting for our bus to take us home.
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