day 141, osaka!

Had a shit nights sleep yesterday, and woke up with a headache then banged my head which pissed me off a treat. We had to line up and get our temperature taken (which we also did when we boarded the train) then exited the ship and entered Japan Customs. I got the usual process of having to provide a proof of onward travel, having a baggage search and a wee body search and subjected to a few ‘innocuous’  questions then they  let me in and got a bus to the subway. It was me, Jason and 2 French Canadians who were cool all heading toward the same hostel. After a bit of a faff with some overly helpful Japanese blokes we found the place, though as we hadn’t booked there were no space, so headed off for a another hostel, and after another bit of faff found the place and checked in. we headed straight off to get some tonkatsu Raman, this cool sort of broth thing with pork and noodles which was amazing, then we wandered round Osaka for a bit, before heading back to the hostel to chill and look at the lonely planet on japan. We headed off to  the other hostel where the French Canadians were staying to meet them for Okonomiyaki, a sort of egg omlette thing with pork and different things  which again was fantastic. From there we caught a few railways and subways to this famous street, including stopping off at this amazing railway station which was stunning, we arrived at this street full of shops, restaurants and the like, which was by a river and was fully lit up and had lots of interesting stuff, including the coolest climbing wall I have ever seen on the outside of the big building, had a walk up and down, had some very cool takoyaki, this really nice eggy thing with octopus in it, in the shape of balls, then made our way back to the hostel for a well looked forward to sleep (worst sentence ever)

Ps: Mum and dad, I’ve put some photos up on the eveil old  facebook if you want to check them, you don’t need an account, just copy and paste the below links into the search bar, x

St Petersburg: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150808463785710.735331.643680709&type=1&l=b49d4c365c 

Moscow: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150876977235710.749568.643680709&type=1&l=0c510c89e0 

Train:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150876987045710.749572.643680709&type=1&l=e0afd0ec60 

Lake Baikal: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150877001865710.749576.643680709&type=1&l=8bc16032ad