Day 12 - Osaka and Return to Tokyo
Another early start this morning, a couple of hours earlier than yesterday I think.
We had to quickly finish packing up our stuff that we'd needed in the morning before heading down to the front desk to check out and pay for the room. We then rushed out into the station so we could grab something from the shop (we got a Hiroshima baseball team tshirt each) before heading over to the Shinkansen section of the station to catch our train to Osaka.
Our first stop in Osaka was to grab something to eat as it was now around 10:30am and we'd been up for hours by now! Plus we didn't know when our next opportunity to eat would be, so we just grabbed something from the Station and put our bags in the lockers (this took a while because pretty much every locker was taken!) before heading over to the Naruto Exhibition.
The exhibition took a lot longer than we'd planned out that it would as we had to queue for over an hour just to get in! I didn't expect it to be so popular, especially not that late in the exhibition.
The exhibition was amazing, The statues and movies added that little bit more just to make the exhibition stand out from the other art exhibits. A lot of the work that was being exhibited were pages and covers from past issues of the manga or chapters from Shonen Jump. My favourite section of the exhibition was the interview film with Masashi Kishimoto and the remake of the desk and library set up he used to write Naruto while he was in college, they even had to precise that there was a photograph in the window area of what he would usually see through the window - although it had been edited and a few characters were seen through the window.
The only thing that spoiled the exhibition were the people in it, there were two American visitors who would not shut up during the entire exhibition, not even during the video sections. And despite the big signs in English requesting for ALL mobile phones to be turned off, the short American had his out showing his friend the woman he's been having an affair with!
My fiancé also wasn't happy with them, especially not when the short one got to the front of a queue (yes, a queue!) to see into a box, and then shouted what was in the box so everyone in the queue heard it.
I am really surprised they didn't get kicked out for being so disrespectful.
After the exhibition we headed over to Osaka Castle, we were low on time since the exhibition took so long and had to cut quite a few things off the list, which is sad because I really wanted to go on the Ferris Wheel!
We had to quickly finish packing up our stuff that we'd needed in the morning before heading down to the front desk to check out and pay for the room. We then rushed out into the station so we could grab something from the shop (we got a Hiroshima baseball team tshirt each) before heading over to the Shinkansen section of the station to catch our train to Osaka.
Our first stop in Osaka was to grab something to eat as it was now around 10:30am and we'd been up for hours by now! Plus we didn't know when our next opportunity to eat would be, so we just grabbed something from the Station and put our bags in the lockers (this took a while because pretty much every locker was taken!) before heading over to the Naruto Exhibition.
The exhibition took a lot longer than we'd planned out that it would as we had to queue for over an hour just to get in! I didn't expect it to be so popular, especially not that late in the exhibition.
The exhibition was amazing, The statues and movies added that little bit more just to make the exhibition stand out from the other art exhibits. A lot of the work that was being exhibited were pages and covers from past issues of the manga or chapters from Shonen Jump. My favourite section of the exhibition was the interview film with Masashi Kishimoto and the remake of the desk and library set up he used to write Naruto while he was in college, they even had to precise that there was a photograph in the window area of what he would usually see through the window - although it had been edited and a few characters were seen through the window.
The only thing that spoiled the exhibition were the people in it, there were two American visitors who would not shut up during the entire exhibition, not even during the video sections. And despite the big signs in English requesting for ALL mobile phones to be turned off, the short American had his out showing his friend the woman he's been having an affair with!
My fiancé also wasn't happy with them, especially not when the short one got to the front of a queue (yes, a queue!) to see into a box, and then shouted what was in the box so everyone in the queue heard it.
I am really surprised they didn't get kicked out for being so disrespectful.
After the exhibition we headed over to Osaka Castle, we were low on time since the exhibition took so long and had to cut quite a few things off the list, which is sad because I really wanted to go on the Ferris Wheel!
We didn't have a lot of time to look around the Castle so we just took a few photographs and got a couple of Shave Ices (yes, ok, both of them were for me, I had three this day as I got one as we left the exhibition too!) and my fiancé also got some octopus balls to try.. he didn't like them.
After this we had to head back to the train station, we visited a couple of shops and got some dinner before picking up our bags and catching our train home. I think it took around four hours to get back to Tokyo then we had to transfer to get back to Ikebukuro.
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