the park closed early, at 5pm, so we went to a japanese restaurant nearby where they had okonomiyaki (I think I got it right), and man was that delicious! we ate for a long while, until we all were full. then, after some counting of remaining cash, I followed kiro and anna to umeda station, where the sky building is. we rushing around the station to find a department store where you could find a well known rollcake. after some walking around, we finally found the right building and went up to the top, where we had the rollcake. this was apparently some kind of tradition I've never heard of. sky building was basically like namsan tower, they even had the padlocks, but all in gold and red.

 

that was the last night for me in osaka. I went back to the hostel, had a long night's sleep, and managed to find my way to the airport again, without any bigger mishappenings. in the check-in line at the airport I met a swedish guy who was going to seoul to visit his girlfriend, so we chatted a lot of the way back to korea.

 

so that was my first trip to japan. I really enjoyed it, but maybe it's even more obvious to me now that I chose the right country in asia to live. somethig makes sense with korea, something I didn't feel anything of in japanese ground. I might go again, maybe with planned company then.