Wednesday, 26 August 2009

A Day in Osaka

The next few days of the trip were quite stressful. We went to Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo for one day each time. when you don't have hostel reservations this can be particularly stressful.

Osaka was OK.

We eventually got a capsule hotel and spent the rest of the day wondering the city.

The most noteworthy thing that happened there was an impromptu trip to see the ever genius J-League.

This time it was a big league game, Gamba Osaka Vs Urwara Reds. (A Suburb city of Tokyo). We paid a tout for tickets to get in. Oddly for the RRP, honestly who knows what that was about. We were stood in the gods but it was still pretty cool. I wasn't in the middle of all the chanting this time, which was a shame but regardless we still got a lot of atmosphere. The attendance was about 30thousand with at least a third of those being from Urwara. The game was dull to be honest. Nothing happened until the 92 second minute when, much to the Americans delight, Osaka sneaked a late scrappy goal.

All in all not a bad way to spend an evening.

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