Nipponbashi Denden Town

We finished off our day up the road in Nipponbashi Denden Town. This is the main area in Osaka for anime and collectibles, loaded with shops with merch, figurines, cards, and gaming stuff. It's basically nerd street. Which suits us, as we are nerds ourselves.

In terms of shopping during the day, I got a secondhand calf length pure mohair coat in mustard yellow/camel on half price, costing me $47 AUD. Given how freezing it was today, this came in super handy, and I now have two amazing coats to bring back home that are unique pieces. I also got a knit top/dress thing that was really cool and fit me like a glove for $9. Michael found a really high quality bright red Italian leather belt for $20 that he was rapt to find, given he knows how rare and difficult it is to dye leather that vibrantly and in red, given his experience in leatherwork.

We also ducked straight down to the luggage store near our hotel and picked up our third suitcase, a lovely 20L carry on hardcase in champagne brown, costing us around $42.

At night in Denden town, I managed to find two great scores. The first was a Team Rocket Pokemon card, and the second was a Pokemon card game mat... In the same pattern as my Serena card sleeves! And for $18! Couldn't believe it! I'll be able to use it for my new desk in my new office at work for sure!

There were so many Pokemon card shops, and we saw some CRAZY expensive ones, including one that cost over a million yen! I also finally got to see some Ash figurines for sale... For hundreds of dollars haha! It was good to see some Pokemon figurines that were the human characters, and Serena was once again found for a good $350. Makes my $10 figurine feel that much sweeter hahaha!

After exploring the shops, I was ravenous, so we had curry for dinner from a local kiosk style restaurant. Super yummy and really hit the spot.

Today was supposed to be a "lazier" day, and we ended up walking over 15km (22,000 steps) hahahahaha. We finished the day with an episode of Bridgerton and then hit the hay, with our final Shinkansen train to Tokyo tomorrow morning!Leggi altro