Osaka

Believe it or not, someone turned Alia’s camera in to Lost & Found! So, this morning we went to Osaka (about 30 min by train) to retrieve it. We used this as an opportunity to explore Osaka.

During our train ride this morning, we were in the first car and had a “Conductor’s Eye View” of the tracks ahead.  It was fun to watch the stations come and go as we zoomed by on the Express Train.

It was a grey and drizzly day today – a perfect day for Instant Ramen Noodles – The Museum!  Yes, there is a museum dedicated to those long, curly noodles you like to just add hot water and slurp on a cold winter day or when camping.  There really wasn’t a whole lot of information in the museum, just the biography of the gentlemen, Momofuku Ando, who created Cup Noodles.  But that didn’t really matter; the important part was that we got to invent our own instant noodlely creation from cup label design, to mixing a unique combination of flavours, to securing our sealed product in a pillow of air.

After our hot lunch of Cup Noodles, we went to the Umeda Sky Building where we spent some time out of the rain, looking down on the city.

The kids did get some time to play in the rain before dinner.  And after dinner, we worked our way through multi-levels of indoor shopping before heading back to Kyoto.