Osaka, Late At Night

Last year, we made an impromptu decision to cut-short our visit to Shikoku and use the last day of our 7-day JR Pass to make a trip to...

Hakodate, which is in Hokkaido! Woot!

There's a night train from Osaka to Tokyo that we can take (and enabling us to save paying a hotel room for 1 night) and then, a train from Tokyo to Aomori then to Hakodate. Yeah, not exactly straight forward but hey! We enjoy our train travel and we enjoyed the countless hours doing them!

Anyhoo, that was why we were spending a late night out wandering around in Osaka one fine autumn night in 2011. We were killing time before we can board our train.

Earlier in the day, we were in Takamatsu, then we spent a bit of time in Nara before stopping in Kyoto and finally made our way to Osaka. A full day!

Killed time drinking and relaxing at McD drinking free coffee. They were giving out free coffee coupons that night. Suweeeettttt!!!

Then, gave Raimie a chance to chill-off at Yodobashi's game section, playing games. What else? xD A treat for a being such a good sport being hauled by his parents and walking/sight-seeing until late night!

That boy has endurance and patience. A good trait for long-distance runner, IMHO. ^^

psst... he followed us to a running clinic twice. Managed to do a 3K run/walk on the first session and a 4K run/walk (he ran a whole mile before agreeing to stop to walk!) with us. Me, happy! :)

 Somewhere in Osaka. Just walking around, looking at Christmas illumination to pass time. ^^

 and then, we got here!

I know this is where most people will take a photo, but if you come here; you simply must take a photo with the Glico Man! Why? Because Lina says so! wakaka Anyway, Glico Man has been here since 1935! He's OLD!

But seriously, wouldn't you want to? Come at night. It's more awesome at night than during the day. Compare this photo with the one I took during the day.

Walked past many restaurants, some still open, some closing. We were there quite late, at around 11.00pm but see how lively the place still is.

Saw some giant octopus. Oh yeah, the giant crab is somewhere near too.

Dotonburi red demon. Red demons selling takoyaki. hehe

At a tayokayi joint that's still open. You go to Osaka. You eat takoyaki. Period. Ahahah. Malaysians, think  Osaka like you'd think of Penang. Food heaven!

The world's first oblong ferris wheel with Ebessan for good luck(?). With Ebessan; though not obvious in my photo is Donpen - a penguin mascot.

The red capsule cars circling Ebessan kinda look like an octopus' suction cups, don't you think? ^^

I already got a giant octopus up there. Here's a dragon. The giant crab shot is somewhere in this blog... I don't have any of the giant puffer fish though. I think... The dragon joint sells ramen, if I did my reading correctly.

Err... not too sure what this place is, exactly.

So how was Osaka? FUN! LOUD!