{"id":11610,"date":"2026-04-27T06:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11610"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:11:53","slug":"japan-2026-day-12-osaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11610","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2026: Day 12 (Osaka)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the day I was meeting my cousins and it wasn\u2019t going to be until 3pm so I just wandered around Nishinomiya. But first I went to a coffee shop my sister recommended for breakfast.<\/p>\n

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Ham and egg toast with ketchup. I dunno, it was good.<\/p>\n

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The view was fine as well.<\/p>\n

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I guess they expect people to set up shop because they said there\u2019s a two hour time limit. Japanese houses are small so people often use coffee shops to sit around and read or work.<\/p>\n

I hung out in the hotel for a bit and then headed to Nishinomiya. My first stop was Nishinomiya Jinja, the main shrine for Ebisu, one of the seven gods of fortune. Actually, I think I really wanted to go to Hirota Jinja but its hard to get to. Next time maybe.<\/p>\n

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The grounds were pretty impressive.<\/p>\n

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And lots of sub-shrines as well.<\/p>\n

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From there I walked towards a home improvement store but before I got there I ran into \u201cFrente\u201d a shopping center near JR Nishinomiya station. I saw a Mr Donut and that\u2019s my usual safe spot to sit for a bit. But next door there was a small restaurant with a line and a sign that said they had handmade tartar sauce for their Chicken Nanban. I had to go in and try it. It was a lot of food.<\/p>\n

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I also had a cup of coffee. It looks brown but that\u2019s the crema.<\/p>\n

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I kept going to the home improvement store because it contained an Astro which seemed like the Japanese version of Harbor Freight. I didn\u2019t really see anyting I wanted so went back to the \u201cregular\u201d section and asked about Mitsutoyo calipers. I\u2019ve heard the ones on Amazon US can be fakes. I guess it\u2019s a specialty item and I couldn\u2019t find anything.<\/p>\n

I still had time to kill so I headed towards Hankyu Nishinomiya-kitaguchi station. This time the train station was right in front of me so I just got on for one stop.<\/p>\n

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After shopping around \u201cGardens\u201d I headed towards my cousin\u2019s. Or so I thought. I was going in the wrong direction. I had time so I went into the Hard-Off\/Hobby-Off and checked out the used stuff. I like older computers so it was fun poking around. They have lots of other stuff too: cameras, musical instruments, anime figurines, etc. I also used their bathroom and it had a washlet that was better than most of the hotels I\u2019ve stayed in.<\/p>\n

I finally made it to my cousin\u2019s and saw three of the four who live in the area. One is slightly further away so he wasn\u2019t there. I had dinner with my eldest cousin and she made lots of veggie-based dishes, knowing that I\u2019m mostly eating out and not getting enough veggies. Sorry, no pictures.<\/p>\n

I finally made it back to Osaka station and bought a couple things at Yodobashi Camera. Pretty boring, mostly a nicer USB cable than the \u00a5200 one I bought a few years ago at CanDo. I bought several that year and they\u2019re pretty iffy.<\/p>\n

I also bought a double cream puff because you are what you eat. No drinks picture today.<\/p>\n

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I should\u2019ve known better. The custard was fine but the pastry was soggy. Oh well. What do you expect from a combini dessert?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was the day I was meeting my cousins and it wasn\u2019t going to be until 3pm so I just wandered around Nishinomiya. But first I went to a coffee shop my sister recommended for breakfast. Ham and egg toast with ketchup. I dunno, it was good. The view was fine as well. I guess they expect people to set up shop because they said there\u2019s a two hour time limit. Japanese houses are small so people often use coffee shops to sit around and read or work. I hung out in the hotel for a bit and then headed to Nishinomiya. My first stop was Nishinomiya Jinja, the main … Continue reading Japan 2026: Day 12 (Osaka)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610","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=11610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11611,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions\/11611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}