Friday, May 3, 2019

Japan free & easy - 5th to 14th Mar 2019 : 11th Mar 2019

For today, as my wife suggestion, decided to buy the Osaka Amazing 2 days pass. Remember that it is valid for subway and bus transport as well, all free within 2 days.

For the list of free entry, refer to this link.

The pass, you can purchased at any of the station

 Map trail for the day

The first stop would be the Umeda Sky Building (梅田スカイビル), we bought bento and eat it at the building there, hehe. Mind you, the admission fee to this building was $1500 yen, not cheap at all. I think if not for the pass, don't think would visit here.

 Destination

The building up-close

 Collections of the city sky-line

 Couple shot

 Shots from the top with the building landscape

 Model of the building

 The open air walk about

 Pix taken at the top open air walk about


 Raining at the left side while sunny at the right side

Couple shot spot, they also provided one handphone stand

 Going out and down of the building, along the escalator down

 Nice photo spot, the tunnel effect

 More shots of the unique building

 Different angle

Next stop would be the HEP FIVE Ferris Wheel.
Wheel from a distance, it is actually on top of one of the commerical building

Entrance

Before going onboard

Views from the top

Before heading to the next spot of attraction, we would need to top-up our energy ! And that would be lunch !!! This time round we just randomly selected one restaurant to settle our meals.

My set

Lizzy's set

 After lunch, found one cafe for a coffee and cake

If you are in Osaka, one of the tourist spot that one must visit would be ?!?!?! Osaka Castle, part of the Amazing Pass list.

 Gate of the castle

The walls with towers

 The castle wall stones are huge, amazing how the ancient people constructed them

 Front of the castle

Couple shot

Castle shot

 Inside the castle

 Views from the top, around 8 stories high

 The story of the famous battle Battle of Sekigahara.

 Castle shot

 You can actually take the boat in the area, but last call is 4pm, which we missed

Closed-up of the boats
 Final shot before going back to Dotorbori for boat ride

Back here for Tombori River Cruise

Nothing much taken during the cruise, maybe I can put up some video of the crusie. still tuned...

Thats for the day......