Two more days in Osaka have gone by, and weve see quite a few specacles. The first one being the Osaka Aquarium. This is a huge aquarium with 9 large tanks inside, and as you descend in a spiral down from the top floor to the main floor there are 9 different depths of sea creatures to view. Everything from sea lions and penguins, to giant spider crabs and jellyfish… with a manta ray and whale shark in between. It was most incredible. Afterwards we rode a large ferris wheel next to the aquarium which moved veeerrryyy slowly, but eventually made it all the way around and we got a great view of the city en route. From the ferris wheel we headed to see an underwater 3d IMAX film. It was great, I actually felt like I was underwater with all those sea creatures, untill tremendous strain came over my eyes and I started to get very sleepy… 3d really takes a lot outta ya.
After we left that zone, we dicided to walk in a single direction from our hostel. Eventually we came by this street that sold all sorts of good goodies. Used video games, and large toy stores. We quickly hurried by most of the stores, as I was to spend the better part of the next day there. We then finished off the night by eating various fried foods off sticks and falling asleep to a kickass japanese assasin film.

The next day I hit up that video game district we had found earlier, of course. I bought all sorts of goodness for myself, but now I have nowhere to put em. My best finds were an original nintendo famicom and a 3do system for 1000 yen.. WHAT A DEAL! now I gotta carry this crap everywhere I go, but it will definetly be worth it in the end…. unless it breaks. We then took the rest of the day off and just wandered around the area for a while.
So far there seems to be the largest homeless population here in Osaka, at least around where we are staying that is. There are ALOT of them, compared to the other cities we visited (I maybe saw one other along the way). Its kind of comforting though, it reminds me of home.

Today we are off to try and get to Koya-san, i think its called… A bhuddist monastary up in the mountains. I expect to eat some great vegitarian meals and find jesus along the way. From there we are to go to Hiroshima and then continue on with the rest of our trip, but right now I gotta run and try to find a suitcase to buy and put all my goodies in it…

bobye