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Oh Osaka, I didn’t expect to love you so

Food in Osaka deserves its own special post; so first let’s talk about non food related items. 

First up, a curved escalator 


Then rhinestone covered Mercedes


Then the best Don Quixote ever.  Not sure if I’ve expressed my love for Don Quixote yet so nows as good a time as ever.  I love this chain of stores!  It’s like the dollar store and Big Lots and a food store and clothes store and electric store and home goods store and costume store all in one.  Usually on six or seven floors.  This one has its own Ferris wheel!!!


I did not expect to fall in love with Osaka. In fact I thought I wouldn’t like it.  All the guidebook pics make it look like an armpit.  I’m here to say Osaka is like my soul animal.  Here are the signs: 



















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