Osaka Aquarium and Castle

Off to Osaka's fish zoo

Seriously cute otters! 

The whole place was teeming with small people.

Sharks! 

Whale shark, Osaka Aquariums main attraction, vacuuming up food! 

Osaka harbour

Mini bonus: alcohol vending machine near our hostel.

Osaka Castle

And the beginning of sakura (cherry blossom) season :D 

View from the top of the castle :)

Osaka

From Korea we flew to Osaka, Japan

Day 1

I insisted we visit this place...

I was pretty impressed with the scale of the pseudo city

First really sunny day this year in Japan, warrented a sunshine selfie

Yayy rollercoasters!

"Irish" bar for lunch

and green beer? It was pretty disgusting, as you can imagine ...

Though this beauty was delicious

Day 2

part 1

Wait...what is that on the island?

OMG, turtles.....

... Yayy!

A well rubbed statue

Fūjin (the god of wind) and Raijin (the god of thunder and lightening) 

part 2

part 3

Cool waterfall steps with a fancy restaurant at the bottom  

Umeda sky building

As our evenings entertainment, we decided we need to see Osaka from above.

Left: Umeda Sky tower from afar,
Below: the tower from below, note the circular observation deck at the top. The diagonal lines you can see are the escalators we had to take to go up the last few levels.

Now, many night pictures...

If only I had an impressive camera and not just my phone, nevertheless, the view from the top of Umeda tower is one of my favourite memories of Japan so far

The down the sky escalator we had to go

Preview of Osaka Aquarium