Osaka!

Well, I didn’t really inform you all, but I was going to Osaka with Yudai!  Specifically DenDen Town/Nippon Bashi- which is tons of electronic shops and anime/manga stuff.

The day ended up being a LOT longer than I thought it would.  We spent like 7 hours out.  First was Den Den Town, which was really fun.  I FINALLY bought the webcam I had wanted to do this month, which makes me very happy.  I will also be starting up my video blog soon that means.  New way for me to express myself, I think it’ll be a fun project.  Otherwise, it was still fun just walking around and checking out different shops in there.  Always a cool place to hang out at.

After that, I wanted to go clothes shopping, so Yudai took me to ‘American Village’, which is a lot of clothes stores grouped together basically.  It has an extremely high number of foriegners in it, and also is a very young place, with most people there being 16-29.  Did some looking around and stuff, but a very expensive place- too much to be plausible for buying stuff.  Jeans were about $70 new, and $40 used.  Of course, there was some MUCH cheaper stuff used, but it wasn’t that great of … quality.

Yudai and I found an ice cream place, which looked really good and wasn’t too much, so that was our snack.  The sucky thing was that it took about 15 minutes after ordering just to get it.  That was definitely boring.  Before that at lunch time, we had gone to McDonald’s.  Cheaper because of coupons, which was nice.  It was also nice that I got to eat American food, which I  now value.  (Even with the health-destroying amount of fat in it.)

Also, little interesting thing, I was walking in the road (oops) and a car honked at me, and after I moved out of the way, Yudai said it looked like a car that the Japanese Mafia use.  And honestly, it did.  It was a bit creepy.  The car was a fancy black Crown, and all the windows were heavily tinted.  This was also in the darker side of Namba, so it was plausible.  Scary.

After we finished in Osaka, which was actually a really long time because of all the walking, and also a lot of sight seeing, we headed back to Fujidera, which is where we met in the morning.  Since the clothes are super expensive in Osaka, we went to ‘Right On’ and I found a great pair of jeans for really cheap ($30).  I’ll take a moment to describe them, as it’s my first actual piece of Japanese clothing.  It is also part of the male style here.

Basically they’re tighter than my jeans from America, which is a given, and they’re also very very low rise.  And yes, they do fit me, I didn’t just go with a small size.  Length is perfect for me, so I was happy.  They look lik enormal jeans, except they have a “worn” effect down the front of them, and the front of each thigh has an extra pocket on it.  And a decorational zipper down the side of said pocket.  The crotch area reminds me more of a girls jean back home, and like I said, it’s tighter than what I’d wear in the US…definitely.  Not skin-tight though, so don’t think too tight.  I dunno if you can picture it, so I uploaded a bunch of pictures to my Gallery!

Along with a picture of Yudai.  And that’s pretty much all the pictures I took through the day.  One of a busy street was completely ruined by a guy who walked in front of the camera.  Darn.

Then we went to Tsutaya, and Yudai bought a CD.  After that, we headed our separate ways.

At home, pretty normal day, but I got home and the whole house was dark.  I knew my family was going to be gone during the day too, so I was like “Oh…darn it…”, but luckily Yoshinori was home so he opened the door.  I don’t have a key.

After dinner we watched Poiseden, which was pretty good.  No one is going on cruises now.