Golden Week #3 : Osaka Part 2 & Nara

 The next day we went to Osaka Castle and walked around the grounds. We also went to the Umeda Sky Building and the Kaiyukai. The Kaiyukai is the largest aquarium in Asia, or was it the world? I forgot. It was awesome inside but so full of people that in some spots in became hard to see the wildlife and all I could see was the back of people's head. If you want to go, you should go early because the lines to get inside are just horrendous. Also, you have to wait twice. Once, to get the ticket which shows what time you can enter the aquarium and the second time to buy the tickets when your time has come.

A museum in the Osaka-jo ground

Osaka Castle

Mascot Osaka-jo

The Kaiyukan

We also went for a ride on the Santa Maria, which takes you around the Osaka Bay Area.
Universal Studios Japan is just across the harbour

Night view of Osaka from the top of the Umeda Sky Building
￥700 per entry for adults、totally worth it 

The day after that, we took a train to Nara which is about 30 minutes from Kyoto. Nara is really famous for all its old temples and also a huge Buddha statue. Let's not forget the numerous amounts of deer just walking around Nara Park. Sightseeing around Nara is easy because everything is within walking distance of the Nara station. To get to all the tourist spots would probably take you around 2 hours.

Famous pagoda that I have forgotten the name of

Angela with one of the many freely-roaming deers

A scary statue behind me

With Nara's mascot

Met with SiGee after we came back from Nara

After we came back from Nara, met up with Si Gee. We all went over to Shinsaibashi again to shop some more then had dinner at a yummy Thai restaurant along the river that runs through there.

On our last day, we checked out around 11 and went to have lunch at a Malaysian restaurant, Malay Boleh. The food there is delicious. I ordered pineapple fried rice, the others ordered tom yam, sate and a bunch of other dishes. It was all delicious and the prices aren't bad either.

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