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Summer Holiday in Japan 2009 – Day 1 – Osaka
October 10th, 2009
Our journey to the land of the rising sun started from Venice, with a stopover in Helsinki, directed to the airport in Kansai.
We traveled with Finnair (good service but the food was not exceptional). We arrived around 12:30 am in a really excellent hotel in Osaka (Arietta Hotel).
We then did a little stroll in the Osaka Castle park, where, besides the beautiful castle we found a real surprise as in front of the castle there was a Kendo and Judo dojo with childrens who train with their teachers.
Towards evening we met with some Japanese friends who accompanied us to the “Kumata shrine summer festival” a real traditional Japanese festivals held in the district of a temple near Tennoji. The festival was very joyful and you could see that all the involved people were doing everything to ensure that the festival should take place in the best possible way.
Finally after this fascinating visit, we went to eat in a ramen shop.
It was a very tiring day but it was an amazing day: I believe that in no other place in the world one can see such dedication to own work.
This is the picture gallery of the first day with captions:
