Astro City

11th September - Osaka

Today we made a fleeting visit to Japan's 4th largest city. Although it's just round the corner from leafy Kyoto it appears to be the polar opposite. The whole place is built on a massive scale, cars and trains run high above the ground and people scurry below it.

The scale of it was such that it seemed like we didn't even scratch the surface. Looking at it all it seems like a really expensive project in urban planning. All that said, we ate okonomiyake in a really sweaty shop tucked under some railway lines and were reminded that it is not so dissimilar to everywhere else.

In the evening we visited the famous Dotombori area which,　with its flashing neon and noisy advertising, does bear more than a passing resemblence to the set of Blade Runner. No Hare Krishnas though.

Bring on Tokyo