Saturday, Feb. 25 2007
Kaiyukan
Most of my day was spent at the Osaka aquarium. I went to spend time with friends more than to visit the aquarium itself since I had already visited an aquarium in Nagoya. However, I am very glad I went because it was quite impressive, especially the 52,000 ton of water tank, containing a whale shark. I had heard many times that this aquarium had two white sharks in captivity, but I did not see that. The aquarium also exhibits birds, monkeys, seals, otters, crocodiles and sometimes a mix of all these animals to create a realistic ecosystem. I would say that aquarium is not a good name for this place, it is closer to a “biosphere”. I also got to ride the largest Ferris wheel on earth and get a great view of the second most expensive city on earth. I also saw a 3D deep sea movie but I slept half of the time.
In the evening we headed to the shinsaibashi and doutombori area and we were looking for the electronics district since one of my friends wanted to get an electronic dictionary. I wasn’t sure if I was going the right way so I asked someone who was passing by who deliberately told us to go on forward when we were not at all at the right place AND going in the WRONG direction. When we asked someone else and found out, we hopped on the subway to go back and when we got there we asked again to make sure and the first person we asked just made a hand gesture (like trying to protect his face from an object flying right by) and just continued walking on. It cannot be the language issue because I asked in Japanese… That kind of behavior is very un-Japanese (I hope) and maybe that person was not Japanese and that might be why we had that reaction.
1 hour later and 17, 000 yen less, we went to Ohsho (again) the same one we had already been to in that area and closed the night at an early 9pm since we were all tired from the walking.
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