{"id":10066,"date":"2019-11-06T04:11:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T12:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=10066"},"modified":"2022-10-13T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T19:46:49","slug":"japan-day-64-osaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=10066","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 64: Osaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know why, but I had a craving for tuna fish. Maybe because I\u2019ve had it over and over in Japan before in breakfasts and in the combini sandwiches and I just hadn\u2019t had it lately. Luckily my sister agreed to go to Tully\u2019s and the coffee was pretty good today fir a change.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5546-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5546-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5546-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5546-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5546-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that we went to Kuromon market, where we just walked through and didn\u2019t really stop. There\u2019s a pretty amazing assortment of food there but it was absolutely packed with Chinese tourists, many more than when I was there last. But it\u2019s definitely worth seeing.<\/p>\n<p>My sister also wanted to go to a unique ice cream store and that turned out to be next to a bakery. The bakery also had a separate caf\u00e9 and restaurant and we ate in the bakery\u2019s restaurant for lunch. The sandwich was huge and I ate most of it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5547-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5547-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5547-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5547-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5547-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ice cream looked great and tasted even better. It was almost like a light gelato.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5548-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5548-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5548-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5548-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was tired and had to go back and take a nap. Then we wandered over to Nakazakicho to see all the hipster shops. My sister saw a sign for a bar, Landnneur, with craft beers and they had four taps all with Japanese craft beers! And all good, too. A couple of the breweries were new, but the beers were good. I had three of the smaller glasses and chatted with the owner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5549-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5549-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5549-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5549-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The area has regular hipster stuff, like lots of vintage goods, and we even saw a Japanese food truck!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5550-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5550-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5550-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5550-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t going to have another pork cutlet for dinner (been eating a log of them lately) but my sister picked a curry place and what\u2019s better than katsu curry?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5551-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5551-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5551-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5551-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s about it for this day. Tomorrow it\u2019s off to the countryside to visit another cousin and my aunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know why, but I had a craving for tuna fish. Maybe because I\u2019ve had it over and over in Japan before in breakfasts and in the combini sandwiches and I just hadn\u2019t had it lately. Luckily my sister agreed to go to Tully\u2019s and the coffee was pretty good today fir a change. After that we went to Kuromon market, where we just walked through and didn\u2019t really stop. There\u2019s a pretty amazing assortment of food there but it was absolutely packed with Chinese tourists, many more than when I was there last. But it\u2019s definitely worth seeing. My sister also wanted to go to a unique ice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=10066\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan Day 64: Osaka<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10269,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions\/10269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}