Peter's Japan blog

Wanted to be early out of bed to get back to Tokyo as quickly as possible. I don't like Osaka very much. It might be the less dense transportation system, might be the neighbourhood my hotel was in (it was kinda crowded with homeless people,not that it was dangerous,but it's not nice). So I might have seen the wrong places of Osaka, but I found it a bit chaotic (although that might sound strange as Tokyo is bigger and more people in it). But I'm just so in love with Tokyo. Even my one-day visit to Kyoto was not to my liking. But I really only saw a small portion of Kyoto, so I can't really judge on that.
Anyway, I got back in Tokyo by 11h30, dropped by luggage in a coin locker and went straight to Akihabara to get rid of some money :D. Although that by the time I was finished, I didn't spend more than 8000yen (of the 64000 that I still had...). I think it's mainly because I'm on vacation and I can only put that much stuff in my bags than I can, and it has to go on a plane, so the stuff I can buy is limited. So no figurines, no games, no dvds (as there are no english subtitles), i'm also not really a anime music buyer unless it's very good. So that leaves us with manga (which actually is all in japanese, but since I'm learning japanese it might actually be helpful, especially if text is in furigana (kanji with hiragana next to them), so I can also read the kanji by using the hiragana next to them. And not everything is in kanji, half of the text is in hiragana, so this is also a very good exercise for reading hiragana (and kanji, and to a lesser extent katakana). And besides that, a few magazines (which I only buy for the pictures, and I can only read the katakana and hiragana, the kanji is still impossible). (And I'm still thinking about buying a Nintendo DS though as they are cheaper here...)
Oh, and they predicted 100% chance of rain today, and it did start to rain a little bit before noon, but not too much. But when I was in Akihabara around 13h30, it started to rain heavily, up to the point that it was pouring out of the sky. But by 14h it started to lessen, and by 14h30 the rain was completely over, and it didn't rain any more for the rest of the day.
Went to eat some ramen again (I'm really getting addicted to this stuff, but maybe because it's simple and something that I know what it is, and the rest is still unknown territory). Then went to my hotel to check in (the same as 5 days ago), but I was now on the 5th floor (4th for people in europe). Gonna sleep in a normal bed again, and have a toilet/bathroom in my room.
So now, I'm gonna try to get everything in my bags so that everything gets safely back to Belgium, and then get into bed to get up early to get to the airport (which is still an hour by train). But the advantage is, that I'm 15min on foot from Ueno Station (JR & Keisei), and all trains to the airport come through Ueno. So I don't have to take 1 or 2 subways/trains to get to Ueno Station, and this also saves time.

Pouring rain in Akihabara:

A bit late, but this was my room in Osaka: