Sunday, July 1, 2012

Wednesday June 27th Brisbane --> Osaka (day 1)


This morning we got up and packed repacked our bags before walking to the airport and checking in at 7, we then returned to the YHA to take advantage of the free breakfast offered to us and check out and then once again walked to the airport. Upon arriving at the airport I realized that the battery in my watch had died. The flight was pretty good, nice food and what not, part way through Krish was adjusting his headrest and it fell off so we had to move seats, just something a little bit interesting to brighten up the trip.


Upon arriving in Japan we cleared immigration and collected our bags without much of a wait. Finding the JR ticket office was a little bit of a challenge, as my map said 3rd floor, but in the airport building the 3rd floor was a food court, turns out that is was on the 3rd floor of the train station. After asking for help and finding the ticket office we got our JR passes and did the first few of our booking, I didn’t do them all as there was a line behind us and it was getting late, and I knew we still had an hour on the trains plus about a 20min walk to get to our hotel.

The train trip to JR namba went well including the transfer which I was a little uncertain about, but then finding our hotel once we got out of the station was a bit of a challenge, the issue there is that most train stations have multiple exits and if you dint take the right one the instructions which you have to get you where you want to go will be completely useless.


We found our hotel with out to much confusion though, and checked in fine, I had to ask for the package that had been posted to the hotel for us, but once I asked it was produced for us very quickly,… the package was our pocket wifi that we have hired for our time here.

This hotel room is rather nice, it would want to be considering how much we paid for just 1 night, its our most expensive room the whole trip.

After dropping our bags in the room we went for a walk to find some dinner, and to explore dotonburi.

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