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We decided to get the hotel breakfast this morning, so got up at 7:30 and headed downstairs. Wow - it was so nice and huge! It included: a small bowl of rice, small piece of salmon, scrabbled eggs, seaweed salad, sautéed spinach and mushrooms with sesame seeds, 3 types of pickles, tofu, miso soup (also with tofu), a fresh salad with mystery crab meats on top, and tea. Yum. We ate all but the crab.
After a little nap (we hadn't slept well due to poor room temperature control), we headed out to the station. We took the Shinkansen to Osaka, got lost for a while, and then took the subway to Shinsaibashi. We got lost again, came out at the wrong exit, and were on our way.
We wanted to take a walk that we found in our lonely planet book. First we had a quick snack of onigiri (with tuna and mayonnaise filling). The first area we were exploring was "America-Mura" which has lots of clothes shops and scruffy looking youths! Many of the shops here are both gross and saad.
We found a Lolita shop that Christina had liked before but it was a bit disappointing. Baby the Stars Shine Bright was good for a cute cardigan as usual and we also found two new second hand Lolita shops called "Maiden Clothing" where Christina found a nice BtSSB dress for cheap! She also found the mythical "Jesus Boob Dress":
We've decided that we don't really like Lolita fashion any more, mainly because most of the clothes are too costumey and cheap-looking. It's still fun to look though!
We then walked down a huge covered arcade which was packed with people, restaurants and shops. We had lunch at McDonald's (which seemed strangely familiar) and then kept on going. After the covered arcade, we turned right into a small street which was quiet and lined with wooden buildings and lanterns. It was a very different scene from the street we had just been on.
We crossed the river and walked all the way back up to the station! We were VERY tired at this point, having started the day tired and walked 1000km. So we went back to Kyoto! Where it was rainy!
After a rest, we went to "our" restaurant and had an even nicer dinner than last night. Then we walked all the way up to Teramachi-dori to a cute clothes shop called Milk, where Christina bought some cute red tights. Charles enjoyed it too. Didn't you. Yes. He claims he did.
Then we just walked back home again! I don't know how we managed to walk so far. My fitbit told me I'd done 10000 steps at about lunchtime!
Tomorrow we head out to Hakone, and I'm not sure if we will have Internet.
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