Japan, Day 2

So after sleeping at a dusty, smelly, low-budget capsule called a room, I headed for namba station for lunch.

This crab place is supposedly very famous, a landmark sort of.  I didn't eat there because it seemed too expensive, but I took a mandatory picture.



After that, I found Chibo. Okonomiyaki has been around for decades and decades, but Osaka-style okonomiyaki is the most popular, and Chibo is where it began. They must be doing something right for them to be in business since 1967.



Okonomiyaki is about 1,500 Yen, which is somewhat pricy (15bucks). But I had to try it.



It's basically a Japanese pancake, somewhat similar to Korean 부침개.



This stuff was delicious. It was a little bit of an overkill towards the end, but it was still pretty darn good.



If I had to describe Japanese cuisine in a phrase, it would be 'attention to detail.' They seem to care about the smallest little things, while Koreans just eat whatever, however they want.

After my wonderful meal, I hopped on a train to Kyoto, the former capital of Japan.




The place below is Kiyomizu temple






And because Kyoto is a big tourist city, there are lots of cultural attractions everywhere (i.e. Japanese women wearing their traditional clothing). When one of them took out their digital camera, I had to take a picture of it.













After that, I went to the Kyoto Tower and its vicinity. There's nothing to see there.



I saw couple other temples and stuff afterwards, but honestly, all the temples pretty much look the same after a few. So I decided to skip on temples and Kyoto in quest for good restaurants.  I originally went to Japan to take pictures, but this is when the purpose of my trip changed to eating good food instead.  I hopped on the train back to Osaka Station, and back to Namba.




Osaka Station

What I've always wanted to try was Japanese Ramen, and this place is supposedly the most famous (that's what the book said at least), so I went there.





It was pretty good, but it wasn't phenomenal. The bigger problem was that I was still hungry afterwards. So I decided to try a little sushi.





But to my dismay, this place was mediocre. I later learned that it's a pretty big sushi franchise in Japan. Boo. I walked around a little bit more before going back to the hotel.