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Day 2 in Osaka was actually mildly disappointing. We managed to walk into most of the tourist traps and we didn't have a single meal that really amazed us (sorry, my expectations of Japanese food are pretty high). For starters, we went to try a famous shop beside the fish market in Osaka but it was closed. So we ended up going to the place beside it, which served beautifully presented but rather tasteless sushi. T and I taking a 'couplie' at the train station Then we headed to the Tenjinbashi mall Mochi.  T wanted the thin, grilled kind but we unsuccessfully tried to describe it to the old lady, who couldn't speak a word of English. So we ended up buying nothing. This was fun though. The Musuem of Housing and Living. Kimonos for cheap hire, 30 mins at a time.  T looks like a wax statue. Nice Japanese locals who offered to take photos for us Wax Statue again!  Antique furni...

The 20th of Sept went by quite smoothly. Yep, that was the day of our wedding celebration in Taipei. I might put up a separate post about wedding celebrations in each of my home cities at a later stage (fingers crossed). What I will happily do is share about our belated honeymoon trip to Japan. We stayed in Osaka and travelled around the Kansai area in between, visiting Kyoto and Kobe. It was my first time to Japan and it was T's first time to the Kansai area (he had only been to Tokyo before). I was pretty excited, as Japanese cuisine tops my list. Could not wait to see and try everything in Japan! We arrived in Osaka around 2pm. Osaka is an hour ahead of Taipei (and I only found that out after realising the time on my watch lagged behind my  iPhone. Ha. Fail…). We took the airport limousine bus to the city, which pretty much landed us at Namba Station, where our hotel was situated.  Here are some snippets of Day 1! After leaving out luggage at the hotel,we s...