A letter to a visitor from Singapore
Nice to hear you visiting.
Attractions in Osaka are as follow:
1. Dotonburi (try deep fried skewered okonomiyaki)
2. USJ titans
3. kuromon mart
4. wizarding world Harry Potter
5. den2 town
6. museum of housing & living
7. spa world
8. pokemon centre
9. osaka Castle
Well, at least those are what I find interesting during my entire stay in Osaka!
For cheap traveling. There's no cheap traveling. The train fare is ridiculously expensive. A normal ride for one station can cost like from Dover to City Hall. Adult fare. However, I do recommend cycling! I have my bike, but you can rent bikes for more free travel, and more things to see, especially if you travel in rural area, but Osaka is no rural. It's a big city, so depends on your penchant to relaxing, or sweating (especially this bloody summer, cycling in autumn is nice tho).
Note that bikes, you needa park it properly on some crowded place. With fares usually JPR 150 or 1.82 Sg Dollar, or it will be taken away and you have to pay 2500 Yen to retrieve it before it's accidentally destroyed maliciously one fortnight later!
Otherwise, have fun!
My advice is stay shaded and hydrate. Maybe the sun heat is just like Sg. I love to visit some of the summer festivals too like the Tenjin Matsuri (watch firework at night at some bridge) in Osaka, or Gion Matsuri in neighboring Kyoto, the cleanest, most natural, and prettiest city in the world, in my narrow opinion. (It has a lot of traditional dances and plenty of food stalls, but the people are like pack crowded, worse than canned tuna and sardine mixed, and the same case for tenjin matsuri in Osaka!). So traveling in Osaka, do not expect to have a direct contact with nature or traditional Japanese culture (to a certain extent), cos it's a big city and has been contaminated with cultures around the world. Expect the uniqueness of the culture and people instead!
Attractions in Osaka are as follow:
1. Dotonburi (try deep fried skewered okonomiyaki)
2. USJ titans
3. kuromon mart
4. wizarding world Harry Potter
5. den2 town
6. museum of housing & living
7. spa world
8. pokemon centre
9. osaka Castle
Well, at least those are what I find interesting during my entire stay in Osaka!
For cheap traveling. There's no cheap traveling. The train fare is ridiculously expensive. A normal ride for one station can cost like from Dover to City Hall. Adult fare. However, I do recommend cycling! I have my bike, but you can rent bikes for more free travel, and more things to see, especially if you travel in rural area, but Osaka is no rural. It's a big city, so depends on your penchant to relaxing, or sweating (especially this bloody summer, cycling in autumn is nice tho).
Note that bikes, you needa park it properly on some crowded place. With fares usually JPR 150 or 1.82 Sg Dollar, or it will be taken away and you have to pay 2500 Yen to retrieve it before it's accidentally destroyed maliciously one fortnight later!
Otherwise, have fun!
My advice is stay shaded and hydrate. Maybe the sun heat is just like Sg. I love to visit some of the summer festivals too like the Tenjin Matsuri (watch firework at night at some bridge) in Osaka, or Gion Matsuri in neighboring Kyoto, the cleanest, most natural, and prettiest city in the world, in my narrow opinion. (It has a lot of traditional dances and plenty of food stalls, but the people are like pack crowded, worse than canned tuna and sardine mixed, and the same case for tenjin matsuri in Osaka!). So traveling in Osaka, do not expect to have a direct contact with nature or traditional Japanese culture (to a certain extent), cos it's a big city and has been contaminated with cultures around the world. Expect the uniqueness of the culture and people instead!
Also, my favorite the best is the Kaiyukan (Osaka Aquarium), but then of course Sentosa also got one already lah, besides I've never been there. I've always wanted to see fish in aquarium that's why. :-D I love fish very much! :"-( but never got the chance nor money to visit one in my entire life.
Talking about fish! Kura Zushi is da best! It's a kaiten (conveyor belt) sushi restaurant you have never seen before! Not in SG! These Japanese people ah... so creative and crazy one, always have weird ideas, like when you submit five plates of your eaten sushi through a hole, you have a 35% chance of winning a Gachapon, but the inside is some very small useless insignificant figurine. Regardless, It's cheap, it's delicious. But then again it's always crowded with people. In that case, you can come to Ganko Sushi! (Ganko is a big food corporation in Japan), and its sushi is, although more expensive, fresher, and higher in quality (although I worked there before and there were quiet a number of cockroaches, but then if you see a cockroach in your soup, tell the employee, and you got yourself a free meal, so don't forget to eat a lot first before reporting. Really, this whole sentence is just a joke. please do not take, only the last sentence, so seroius.)
Talking about fish! Kura Zushi is da best! It's a kaiten (conveyor belt) sushi restaurant you have never seen before! Not in SG! These Japanese people ah... so creative and crazy one, always have weird ideas, like when you submit five plates of your eaten sushi through a hole, you have a 35% chance of winning a Gachapon, but the inside is some very small useless insignificant figurine. Regardless, It's cheap, it's delicious. But then again it's always crowded with people. In that case, you can come to Ganko Sushi! (Ganko is a big food corporation in Japan), and its sushi is, although more expensive, fresher, and higher in quality (although I worked there before and there were quiet a number of cockroaches, but then if you see a cockroach in your soup, tell the employee, and you got yourself a free meal, so don't forget to eat a lot first before reporting. Really, this whole sentence is just a joke. please do not take, only the last sentence, so seroius.)
In summer, try the Unagi don (Eel with rice). It's bloody delicious. My favourite after sushi!
Naniwa is where my Japanese language school is!
Naniwa is where my Japanese language school is!
Hope you have a nice trip, sir, and family!
really wanna eat hawker's satay and chicken rice again :-(
Steven
really wanna eat hawker's satay and chicken rice again :-(
Steven
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