{"id":9903,"date":"2019-10-21T05:09:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T12:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=9903"},"modified":"2022-10-11T16:11:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T23:11:44","slug":"japan-day-48-osaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=9903","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 48: Osaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not sleep well last night. I think it was because I had a bunch of lengthy computer updates to do and I must&#8217;ve kept thinking about them instead of just sleeping. Basically it&#8217;s click a few buttons, then wait. Click a few more and wait again. But whatever. I knew I could put it off but it must&#8217;ve been upset my sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I also knew I wasn&#8217;t planning on doing much because it was supposed to start raining today. I figured I&#8217;d go to Umeda Loft to see if they had any iPhone 11 Pro cases but they only had four(!) different ones there. And I knew they&#8217;d open late in the morning, but I forgot the slackers didn&#8217;t open until 11AM! After striking out I quickly left because I know my sister will want to shop at Loft when she gets into town so I&#8217;ll have more chances to check out the selection.<\/p>\n<p>I did have a nice and slightly expensive breakfast instead of the usual Morning Set at a fancy new coffee shop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5426-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5426-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5426-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5426-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5426-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5426.jpeg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since I struck out at Loft I also tried the Hankyu Department store, the Hanshin department store, and Tokyu Hands. Tokyu Hands also put me very close to the Daimaru dining floors so I started looking for a particular restaurant that served gratin. Unfortunately I couldn&#8217;t find it. I did find another omurice store in Lucua that looked interesting and there was a line. As a good Asian I got in the line and I wasn&#8217;t disappointed. The ketchup rice wasn&#8217;t wrapped in egg, but just topped with fluffy souffl\u00e9-like egg. It was great. And the set I got came with a thick pancake for dessert and that was good too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9905\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5427-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5427-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5427-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5427-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5427-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5427.jpeg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that I decided to go back to the room, watch some more Netflix (I&#8217;m on vacation after all) and even take a short nap. I went out for dinner and it was raining, but I knew a way to get almost to where I wanted to go (Katsukura in Chayamachi) without going outside. I only really had to cross the street and an outdoor escalator to get to the restaurant. It was worth it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5428-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5428-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5428-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5428-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5428-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5428.jpeg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s pretty much it for today. I may go to Nagoya on Wednesday if the weather improves, but I expect tomorrow will be more of the same &#8220;nothing&#8221; as today. I might actually get a day pass on the Hankyu train lines and just ride it around a bit. I can&#8217;t think of anything else to do, really, so why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not sleep well last night. I think it was because I had a bunch of lengthy computer updates to do and I must&#8217;ve kept thinking about them instead of just sleeping. Basically it&#8217;s click a few buttons, then wait. Click a few more and wait again. But whatever. I knew I could put it off but it must&#8217;ve been upset my sleep. I also knew I wasn&#8217;t planning on doing much because it was supposed to start raining today. I figured I&#8217;d go to Umeda Loft to see if they had any iPhone 11 Pro cases but they only had four(!) different ones there. And I knew they&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=9903\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan Day 48: 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-9903","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\/9903","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=9903"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10250,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions\/10250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}