A day in Osaka - Namba specifically

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We had a fun day in Osaka.  We left the house in Tanabe around 1000 hours and caught the Kuroshio limited express treain at 1030 for the 1.5 hour ride to Shin Osaka Station.  We had some trouble finding a please to store our luggage because all the lockers were full.  We had to check it in at a luggage storage area... more expensive but still convenient.. NOTE:  we were amazed that when we came back to Shin Osaka we actually found the storage place on the first try!!!!  These really big train stations can be really confusing at times!

We caught the Medosuji metro line out to Namba Statiion and proceeded to visit three or four places we had picked out earlier.  They were:  the 100 yen store, the Hozen-Ji Temple, the Kuromon Market, A fishing store and the Ebisu Bridge.  We managed to get to them all and had a great Macha ice cream cone to boot!

This is the in thing to do at the Evian Bridge!


Macha ice cream cones-very good on a hot day!this is a statue we visited during a trip back in the early 2000s!  We hade a gre da t meal here - we were hosted by the Alain family.













The Aruka train to the Kansai airport!


Hugh

The Shin shaibashi

The Ebisu bridge over the Dotombori-gawa River... connects to rather famous shopping districts/lanes.






Entrance to the Hozen-ji temple



























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