
After Hakone we took a bullet train to Osaka and located the Earth building. This must be where they run the show.
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After Hakone we took a bullet train to Osaka and located the Earth building. This must be where they run the show.

We stayed in the Umeda district of Osaka where the locals liked to keep potted gardens outside their dwellings. These gardens took over streets and sidewalks and were really cool. Even though they showed up in other Japanese cities, we started calling them Osaka gardens.




No longer able to protect the castle, Osaka put up blue cones and aluminum fencing. . .

it’s nice to know that an octopus can still find decent work in Japan. . . other than being food.

We hiked a few mountains in Japan, each with different flavored pathways. . .

