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Osaka is located in the Kansai region of Japan. This is one of Japan's major cities with a very large and remarkable international airport that is built a bit offshore from the city. The city has lots of different interesting sights and areas. Universal Studios Japan is located here. There is a good public transportation system here and it's relatively simple to get around the city. It is also well connected to other major cities such as Tokyo and Kyoto, via the Shinkansen train.
A unique title that the city of Osaka holds is the first place in Japan for day to night population ratio of 141%, a depiction of Osaka's economical and commercial centric character. While at night time the population ranks third place in the country at 2.6 million, in daytime it surges to 3.7 million, second only after Tokyo!
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Jul 25, 2008 - Jul 26, 2008
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I went to bed around 3:30am after the meet up. I set my alarm at 8:30am so I won't miss my breakfast at the hotel. They searve until 9:30am. I got up by my alarm clock but went back to sleep. Woke up at 9am, hurried and went down to have breakfast. Met up with Ayaka today. It was 10am LOL!!! It's very early for me to go out. haha!! She was already there.We went to see 'Tsutenkaku', kind of TV tower. I've been to Osaka for a several times but I had never seen it so I asked her to take me there...
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Kind of early in the trip for this, but I am experiencing a little "blog burnout." Today I vow not to ramble. This will be a short one. Really. In fact, I am even going to do bullet points. MORNING: up at 6:45 and parked myself at the computer. Blog, blog, blog. It's like a job! :^) Steve focused on his obsession: tryng to download free TV from the US. There is some block on doing this, so he is VPN-ing this and hacking that, but to no avail. MID MORNING BREAK: Walked through Osak...
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Mar 06, 2008 - Mar 08, 2008
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On March 3rd, in Japan it is Hinamatsuri, otherwise known as dolls festival or girls day. The dolls though are not dolls that girls play with but are dolls that are displayed on a red cloth in the families homes. The dolls are displayed over 7 tiers, with the emperor and the empress on the top tier.
The custom of displaying dolls began during the Heian period from 794. Formerly people believed the dolls possessed the power to contain bad spirits. They would then set the hina dolls on a boat ...
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I woke up, the room was covered in darkness,it must of been earlier than I thought I couldn't hear any traffic outside so I reached over and fumbled around the floor searching for my watch wondering what time it was. My eyes squinting in the darkness makes out that its 9 am in the morning. 9 o'clock it can't be I thought it's just too dark in here.
I walk over to the curtain and slide it over expecting to see rays of light shine into the room but today there is n...
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