Retail Therapy in Downtown Osaka

Started the day with a long list of tourist things to do - then we did almost none of them. I mean, I did do wordle for the first time in a few days, so it’s not a complete fail….

I started with a quick jog around the river (it was hot and humid and I managed just 3km before calling it and coming back to the house), we all got ready finally and caught a few trains to the Port where the family did the Giant Ferris Wheel while I lined for Aquarium tickets in the heat.

(We did stop off at a Melbourne style coffee shop on the way and I had the best double espresso of the trip).

The estimated time of entry for the Aquarium kept pushing out while I was in the line (there is a big sign telling you when your tickets is going to be valid for)- with a few hundred people in front of me it looked like a 2 hour wait to get in - so I gave up on the tickets and we grabbed some lunch in a horrid food court and we headed back to town.

So we chose retail therapy to rescue the day.

Shopped for a few hours in Shinsaibashi, the weather turned and started to bucket down - Ben did some vinyl shopping (got drenched but the records are ok) and then we all met for dinner out.

Krissi and I finished the night by wandering the shops and markets near our house and grabbed a quick beer outside.

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