We left Tokyo around 9am, to get out JR Exchange Order changed into a JR Pass, so we can ride *some* JR run lines around Japan (costs like £209 per week, but it pays for itself after going to Osaka and back to Tokyo!)
I won't bore you with the travel stuff! We got on the bullet train, it was a Shinkansen train, not quite the Nozomi (the fastest of the bullet trains) but oh well!
We arrived at our station Fukushima, Osaka a little after 2pm, we couldn't check in till 3pm so we just strolled around, it was immensely hot today, to the point where I single handedly bankrolled most of Osaka's vending machines. Once we were checked in, we were told about a party that night, or izakaya, basically, an izakaya is a place where people go to drink, but they serve food, not like pubs back home, more like occasional nibbles! It cost us like 2,000 yen to go, and it was a great laugh, we were chilling with some like minded people, some students and travellers. We drank and ate a lot of amazing Japanese cuisine (Sushimi, Tofu, Eggplant and Sake! springs to mind!) We left there to go to the local Karaoke bar. Karaoke was great fun, not quite as good as when we went with Aaron and G-rat, mainly because their systems were rubbish! But when you're drunk and singing along to Nothing Else Matters and Bittersweet Symphony with good company, can you ask for more?
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