Week 4 Pt 2

SHINSAIBASHI!!!

Went to Shinsaibashi on Saturday 16th Oct. Shinsaibashi's the downtown area in Namba (the southern part of Osaka city) and boy is it a dangerous place to go. it can be summarised in 3 words: people, shops and food EVERYWHERE. so ping + shopping + food = soon-to-be-broke person.

we just basically walked around. camwhored in front of the glico man, found used undies, and those life-sized dolls. then we found some korean restaurant and had some real kimchi and spicy food, then i got a bit tipsy on the soju and then we went k.

afterwards, we went to take purikura, where we lost track of time and missed the last train. so we strolled from namba to umeda (took about 3 hrs), then wandered around the shoutengai (which was a bit seedy in some areas) in umeda for an net cafe and bummed there for a couple of hours until the trains start running again.

the net cafe was interesting. the place is split up into different sections. we paid for the cheapest that was an open seat, which is like your regular net cafes back home. but just behind us were private booths, which kinda acted like a private small room for you to chill. and there's a heap of manga available for you to read, and there's snack and drink vending machines. too bad the one we went to didn't have showers cos i've heard that some internet cafes have showers as well.

anyways, here's a couple of photos from the day

the doll....
didn't take a photo of the used undies cos the shop clerks were staring at us and i felt so disgusted at it


in front of the glico man