7, 8 and 9th of August

Just got back from 3 days of Osaka! It was truly awesome. We arrived kinda late at Osaka on Friday, so we went straight to our ryoukan in Namba. But when we got there... the ryoukan was closed. We were like "NOOOOOO!!!". Suddenly a man popped out of a car and told me that the ryoukan was closed for the day because the air conditioning was broken and it needed to be repaired. He wasn't sure when the airco will be on again. We were like, "ok.. we all had luggages with us, it was bloody hot, we want to chill." So I told the man that we were going to look for another hotel. He understood and told us again how sorry he was.

Osaka was really hot. We decided to leave the luggage at a certain spot where Werner and Dope will be guarding it, me and Boy went to look for another hotel. Really, Japan has more Love Hotels than normal ones. We went into a love hotel two times, they looked like real hotels on the outside. Then we got to a real hotel, the Washington Hotel. And yes! They got rooms for us!!! And man, the rooms were sweeet! We got our own yukata's, a telly, a nice bathroom and even our own BGM sound.

Since it was already kinda late, we decided to stay in Namba and have something to eat there. We went to eat at a hot-pot restaurant, which was delicious. After that we went to some arcade and did karaoke at the Big Echo in Namba! Boy went crazy, he sung his lungs out.

Saturday we went to Miyajima, an island near Hiroshima. On that island lies the famous red Torii (gate) on the sea (one of the 3 most beautiful views of Japan). It was very hot that day, we all were melting from the heat. But Miyajima was so beautiful. You can get to the island by a JR ferry and the view on the boat ride was really beautiful. There were a lot of deers on the island and they aren't scared of humans at all. The torii itself was big and since you can see the sea at one side and the mountains on the other, the view was fantastic. I bought a pack of Manjyu (cake) on the island, deliciousss.

After Miyajima we went back to Hiroshima to see the Peace Memorial Park, the place where the atomb bomb was dropped. There you can see a building which was the only building which didn't got destroyed when the bomb dropped. The park gave me a creepy feeling, especially the building.

We planned to go to Universal Studios Osaka on Sunday, but since we arrived late at Friday and didn't got to see Osaka, we decided to drop Universal and go sightseeing in Osaka. We went to Ameri-mura, Denki Mura and Umeda Sky Building (awesome). Too bad the weather was bad that day, we couldn't see the view clearly at the top of the Umeda Sky Building due of all the rain.

After returning to Koenji, we went to do some karaoke once again (there is a Big Echo 5 minutes from our hostel).

It's 4 AM now and I'm really tired, so I'm gonna hit the sack!