Kyoto is only half an hour from Osaka, but it has different personality. It’s an ancient city with lots of historical background. It was the old capital city of Japan before Tokyo, established in 794, a good 1200 years ago. As result, the city has many palaces, shrines and temples, which are not only historical,…
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A Day in Osaka: Osaka Castle and Dotonburi
We spent our day in Osaka yesterday to visit two most popular tourist attractions: Osaka Castle and Dotonburi area. In the morning we went to Osaka Castle, a great castle built in 1600 which architecture show how the Japanese castle was built during that era. It was surrounded with moat and big barriers to prevent…
Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studio
Shortly after arriving at Shin-Osaka station, we put our luggages into station locker, and head up to Universal Studio Osaka. As you may guess, our main interest for this place is obviously the Harry Potter attraction, which was recently opened in 2012. Elok and Aya are fans of the J.K. Rowling’s fiction so we went…
Ride the Shinkansen!
This morning we head up to Osaka, to continue our holiday trip in Japan. We left Tokyo early in the morning, taking the bullet train Shinkansen Hikari at 06.26 am. Tokyo JR station is very big, airport-like train station. It’s clean, it’s modern, show how vital these Shinkansen railways as part of Japanese people commuting…
Two Happiest Places
Yesterday we spent our day in Tokyo visiting two happiest place: Disneyland, “the happiest place in the world”, and Yodobashi-Akiba, “the happiest store for me and Rafif”. LOL. Disneyland first. Well, Disneyland is Disneyland. You feel happy right after you enter the park. The place, the theme song, the ambience, it is just nice. This…