awesome Osaka part 3 - coming of age day

Another early start to the day! But it's worth it. We met up with Sally's mum to go to the aquarium. apparently it's one of the biggest in Japan and also is the only one with a massive stingray (some species which is very hard to keep). Sally's mum was so lovely and paid for everything! I was so chuffed! It was really sweet because she tried to explain various things to me in English, and I tried to follow in my broken Japanese. We had a laugh though. The aquarium was so good! I thoroughly recommend going! It was massive. The tank was very very deep. There were sea otters, dolphins, penguins (!!!!), various colourful fish, cute crocodiles, iguanas and and and. After the aquarium we went on to the big Ferris wheel, where we could see most of Osaka. It was quite windy, so our cabin was shaking a bit, but the view was pretty! Then we went for some takoyaki and okunomiyaki in this small restaurant place, followed by a ninja house! The ninja house was just this fun little place, where you had to go through mazes and you'd trigger off things falling via light sensors, (which I quickly noticed and kicked to see what would happen before I moved on.....scaredy cat that I am).
The Osaka castle was last on the list. it was a beautiful place. The castle was more pretty than anything. It wasn't really the greatest defence place in the world. But I learnt a little about about the history of Japan and shogun..that castle was built by a hideoyoshi..T...something something. He wanted to be a shogun and was very respected bya lot of people. I don't like him too much anymore after I learnt that he killed his wife and adopted son after finding out his other wife had born him a biological son. Meanibum.

We also saw quite a few girls in kimonos waltzing around because it was the coming of age day, so all the 20 year old girls get to dress up. It was really nice seeing them around the place. Little splotches of vibrant colours dotted aorund.