19-20th of February 2015
The flight between Seoul and Osaka was around 2h. We arrived quite late at Osaka's airport but we managed to get one of the last trains going to the city.
We have checked the advises on Internet and we saw that there were not so many things to visit in Osaka; the main one was of course the Osaka castle. This way we were about the spend only a half day there and then go to Kyoto.
First impressions:
Well, all the image I used to have about Japanese people got even better once arrived there: I have never seen so polite, disciplined and helpful people in one place. In the plane were not rushing and pushing in order to get faster but everyone was getting out out row by row.
Our hotel was in the downtown but we got a bit lost so we stop of group of Japanese who were really nice to show us our way, and went to see the night life. We went on the bar street, had some food and tried several bars before going to a club.
Well the clubs don't change a lot from what we have anywhere else, but compared to China there were less foreigners and I was really surprised that the Japanese people were actually going there to have fun (dance, jump around, drink) and they were very friendly. Whereas in China for example clubs are a way to show money and power, so very few Chinese people are really having fun...
The next day we woke up and we went to visit the Osaka Castle which was located in a big park. The weather was surprisingly good for the period (around 18-20 degrees) and sunny.
The castle is definitely beautiful and nice. It was not huge as Versailles or the forbidden city in Beijing but enough big to handle an emperor family I guess and of course designed with this traditional Japanese style :).
We have checked the advises on Internet and we saw that there were not so many things to visit in Osaka; the main one was of course the Osaka castle. This way we were about the spend only a half day there and then go to Kyoto.
First impressions:
Well, all the image I used to have about Japanese people got even better once arrived there: I have never seen so polite, disciplined and helpful people in one place. In the plane were not rushing and pushing in order to get faster but everyone was getting out out row by row.
Our hotel was in the downtown but we got a bit lost so we stop of group of Japanese who were really nice to show us our way, and went to see the night life. We went on the bar street, had some food and tried several bars before going to a club.
Well the clubs don't change a lot from what we have anywhere else, but compared to China there were less foreigners and I was really surprised that the Japanese people were actually going there to have fun (dance, jump around, drink) and they were very friendly. Whereas in China for example clubs are a way to show money and power, so very few Chinese people are really having fun...
The next day we woke up and we went to visit the Osaka Castle which was located in a big park. The weather was surprisingly good for the period (around 18-20 degrees) and sunny.
The castle is definitely beautiful and nice. It was not huge as Versailles or the forbidden city in Beijing but enough big to handle an emperor family I guess and of course designed with this traditional Japanese style :).
After visiting it, we went to get the train which was looking as a subway (or the RER version of Paris), to go to Kyoto. During the trip I was really surprised by the length of the city... Indeed, I almost didn't manage to see the transition from Osaka suburbs to Kyoto as there were houses and small buildings all along the way.