Japan 2015 Day 9

I’m running late because I went to visit my cousin. I’m going to post some pictures and then edit this in the morning.

Woo, it took even later than I thought because of server certificate errors. Sheesh.

The breakfast at the Mitsui Garden Hotel Premier Osaka is as fancy as you’d think for a place with a name like that. The price is fancy too but there’s some of anything you’d want. Comparable to the Castle Hotel Fukuyama. Good thing, too, since I was also doing laundry and the washer/dryer combo takes TWO HOURS to finish.

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There’s even breakfast for dessert!

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Today was my shopping day to try to get all the things on my mom and my sister’s wish lists. Who knows, I might find some stuff for myself as well. One of the hardest things to find was my mom’s face cream and I took pictures of some drug stores that I tried. They’re full of Chinese tourists buying lots of drug store things. I don’t know if it’s cheaper than China or if they don’t trust Chinese manufacturers.

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Somehow ran into a campaign truck. The election season is just starting here.

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Another drug store.

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I took a break for lunch at the “wired cafe”. I think they used to have LAN cables for your laptops back in the day. Now it’s all wireless. It’s also one of the few places I know where you can get “taco rice”. I got the combo. In the lower left is a “burrito” (a ham and cheese is what it really is) and the fries had sugar on them! It was all tasty, though and spicier than you’d expect in Japan.

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Most of the other pictures I took are just things I was sending to my sister to make sure I was buying the right thing. I ran into people promoting a region just north of here along with their mascot.

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After that I went to my cousin’s for dinner. She had a stack of books for my mom. It’s only about 20 minutes away, I think, but it took a while to get there. First, there was an accident delaying all trains going towards Kobe (I think a suicide) and then there was a fire on the walk to her house. I wasn’t that late (even though google maps confused me) and I had a good time talking to her and another cousin who stopped by.