18th April 2010: Sunday - This whole day was spent on Osaka where we went over to Osaka Castle in the morning and then to watch a J-League game in the afternoon to make up for the planned game in Tokyo. The Castle was quite nice to visit and gives a good view of Osaka and the surrounds. Would really recommend going in the Sakura season for this since there are many blossom trees planted around the castle (about 2-3 weeks earlier would have been nice with full bloom).
The J-League game was rather interesting with two bottom end teams battling for goals. Nice environment and atmosphere and if you can, this should be a good to go (although non-soccer fans would be struggling to stay awake). The japanese are pretty hardcore fanatics, so it is rather interesting just to see them play big bongo drums and singing their team song (Osaka... Osaka.. blah.. Osaka...)
The last part of the day was splitting up the group to do particular things that we wanted to do ourselves in Osaka. Since I have never been, I decided to go to this place called "Den Den Town" which is also famous for Electronics. Den Den Town's real name is Nipponbashi (dont ask me why, but seems like every major city has a suburb/district of this name). Was pretty disappointed with this as it was smaller and not as good as Akihabara which in turn is not as good as HK PC megacomplexes such as Golden in Sham Shui Po.
Anyhow, here are some photos of the day:
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