15 March 2014
Another 4 hours walking
I set out aiming to walk from Shin Osaka to the Tenjinbashisuji covered walkway, as my mother challenged me to find it.
It only took about 30 minutes to get there, including walking over the bridge that crosses the river. Not much of a challenge.
This covered shopping street is indeed longer than the other one, but it is a ghost town. Even on a Saturday night.
Once I had my dinner, see below, I then decided to just keep walking...and walking. Eventually I got back to Namba, and kept walking. Did a quick lap of Den Den Town which was mostly shut other than anime and porn stores.
I wanted to see old second hand electronics and such, but they seem to shut early.
I did manage to see inside a place that had set a new record for Japan. It was a maid cafe, with puppys and cats, full of people doing karaoke whilst playing video games.
Another highlight was seeing a Japanese girl wearing a t-shirt that just said in block letters 'I GOT BIG COCK'. Try as I might I couldnt photograph her.
It was much warmer tonight, so I took a lot more photos, probably too many, I should edit more, but I am tired and cant be bothered with selectivity. Enjoy overload.
Crossing the bridge from Shin Osaka. Surpisingly not cold. Hands not needed in pocket even. Speak good I do.
Osaka homeless population has dwindled.
Here is the start of the 2.8km long covered shopping street, Tenjinbashisujifukuizakayamatumotohigashimori.
At first it was busy, for about 50 metres....
Then it became very quiet, with lots of stores shut at 6pm.
Attention mother / Jenny / Adriana / whatever other alias to get past my spam filters - Isnt this what you call your cat?
Today was no Japanese food day.
Pizza was good, but Osaka famous cat curry would have been better.
I was still hungry cause my pizza had no cheese. No bother, these green tea chocolate coated cashews were great.
Iron chef mode on: The natural crunchy saltyness of the cashew combines with the creaminess of the chocolate, infused with a bitter green tea flavour to delicately balance the pallete and allow for a pleasing experience not to be missed.
These characters pointed the way to yet more low rent covered shopping street.
Back at Shin Sai Bashi after a long walk through not much, and its neon overload.
Its a lot busier, despite being a lot later.
I dont even know what the running man sign is advertising, but everyone takes the photo, including me. Because I like to conform.
Dotonbori eating street, no chance for a party of 1 to eat here on Saturday.
Inside an anime / hobby / trading card / video game / porn store, and heres a bizzarre model of a public toilet with poseable figurines.
Collect the whole set.
The outside of a multilevel nerd utopia.
Proof I walked all the way to Den Den town
Last spot to visit this evening, giant video game centre. Now to pass out immediately from exhaustion.