Amagasaki 5 (for Mar. 21)

Today we went to the Osaka Museum. It was most excellent. There was enough English in the displays that you could usually tell what was going on, but much more and it would have taken too long to go through. They had many excellent dioramas and models, like this one of the officials in the court of the local ruler of the day. One of them is the spitting image of Celeste!


The dioramas and models contained many finely detailed action figures that made you feel like you were looking at a moment frozen in time.












From the museum, we could view our next stop, Osaka Castle, although the reflections in the window were pretty bad. Tyler had to leave us at 1:30 to head for work, but we continued on to lunch and the castle. We toured the grounds for a couple of hours, taking in the views, including this peach and plum blossom park.























We also stopped for some delicious candied strawberries on a stick. Mmmmm! What diabetes?











Around 5 we headed for an entertainment district where a teacher at Carla’s school was playing in a band. First we toured around the area for a while soaking up the atmosphere.
















One of the icons that we had to take in was this wall of neon advertising, including the character standing on one foot. He is a symbol for a food manufacturing company.

We got to the club where the band was playing about 7:30 and ate at eight. Tyler got off work at 8 and joined us at 9. We headed home at 10 and were in bed by 11. The band was pretty decent, playing my kind of oldies - Eric Clapton, The Police, and Santana.