Day trip to Osaka

Today we took a daytrip from Kyoto to Osaka to meet up with our school and Parkrun friends Fumiko, Peter and Mitchell. It was lovely to see some familiar faces and relax a little and be guided around by them for the day. We went to the Ebisubashi shopping arcade on the Dotonbori river which has been a commercial and theatre street since the 18th century. We had lunch in a casual (but apparently famous) restaurant - we tried okonomiyaki - cabbage omelet doused in sweet salty sauce and mayo - its disgustingly delicious.
Ivy seems to be cautiously expanding her food repertoire in Japan (possibly out of complete hunger). She had some of the okonomiyaki at lunch and requested some of my ramen tonight at dinner.
Honke dai ichiasaki is another ramen place that came recommended. It is 50 years old and happens to be about 200 metres from our Airbnb home - which makes it convenient to check the size of the queue !Read more