Osaka, New Years, and Eddie

I've had such a wonderful time since Eddie got here. He recovered from jetlag pretty quickly. We stayed in Osaka for a week at my friends' apartment. Unfortunately it got very cold the day after he got here, so it wasn't as much fun walking around the city. We still managed to see a lot of the city though! Here we are in the Dotomburi district. That night we went on a small boat river cruise.

Here I am posing at the Tennoji Zoo.

Here's Eddie in a market near Namba. It was really funny how he could see over everyone's head.

Here's Eddie using chopsticks like a pro. He learned in three days!

Here we are in Kobe. We spent a day there. We met up with one of my friends from Wellesley. She and her family treated us to a delicious sushi lunch. We also went on a sake brewery tour in the Nada section of Kobe.

We went to Osaka's aquarium called the Kaiyukan. It was pretty cool. We saw a whale shark, porcupine fish, sting rays, dolphins, giant crabs and a bunch of jellyfish. I took a video of the big tank. The link is on the right.




Many places were closing because of New Years. Unfortunately I got mixed up about when the instant ramen museum was open. So we went all the way out to Ikeda, a suburb of Osaka, and the doors to the museum were locked. We still took this picture though!!