Osaka is amazing. Japan is amazing. The end.

Well... not the end (of this blogpost), but we have inevitably and unfortunately reached the end of our trip. Tomorrow we fly out of japan on a comfy overnight jetstar flight (haha, sarcasm) and get to cairns airport at 5 in the morning, where we will then have to wait 6 hours for our shuttle bus to Port Douglas. Fantastic. All super witty sarcasm aside though, our last few days in Osaka (and Japan) have been filled with unbelievable new experiences, amazing foods and lovely people. In the last 5 days we have hung out with a bunch of sound artists at a party, visited Osaka Castle, tried Okonomiaki, visited a contemporary art gallery, been to an amazingly huge aquarium, witnessed a mantaray trying to get it on with a diver, been on Hep-5's gigantic ferris-wheel, rode on some lame 3D rides by ourselves in a games arcade (but still had heaps of fun even though it was so cheesy), accidently wandered into the wrong part of town and stumbled across the weirdest brothels, visited an Onsen (Japanese gender-segregated bathhouse) and walked around in the nude, walked all the way down the longest shoten-dori (covered pedestrian shopping street) in Japan, visited America Town and did some more shopping. But the one thing that has really made this part of the trip is the super cheerful, friendly, positive atmosphere of Osaka and the Kansai people. What both Luci and I are seriously going to miss is the deeply ingrained posivity and politeness of Japanese people. We're very sad tonight about leaving but hey, it can't be too bad, we are after all off to a tropical beach tomorrow. Sayonara Japan, we've had the most unbelievable adventures.

More from Port Douglas!

Pictures: views from Osaka castle (daytime), Hep-5 Ferris Wheel (nighttime), picture of Osaka castle, jellyfish at the aquarium, more parfaits, Fukushima-dori (the street of our hostel), some totally crystallised cars in Amemura, eating Okonomiaki, the scary statues on the 2.6km shopping mall, an entire bottle of Yakult (yum) and a photobooth photo from Hep-5.