shopping district | Life Outside of Texas

We didn’t have a lot of time in Osaka so we walked around the shopping district. We saw lots of interesting things.

When in Japan, be careful what you order for breakfast or you may end up with a Filet-O-Fish sandwich!

A very crowded shop that only sells photos of Japanese pop stars

Panda pants on a grown man? OK!

Osaka

Osaka was so crowded and Faith and I both noted that the cultural differences between Japan and Korea were very apparent. In Korea, people have no problems pushing right by you, but politeness was out in full force in Osaka. Even through the crowds, we weren’t pushed once and people actually apologized for the tiniest bump!

We also came across a peace parade.

My January trip to Japan was one of my favorite trips because I got to see a lot of really neat things in Hiroshima, Miyajima and Osaka, but also because I got to spend a lot of time with Faith before she moved back to the States.

I let Faith do all of the photography for our trip to Japan because she brought her DSLR. When I saw them on Facebook, I noticed she had played with the colors on some before posting them… a lightbulb went off in my head. I took the original photos she had given me and decided to do some editing of my own.

When we were in Osaka, we walked through the shopping district and came across a river. The view was really pretty so we took a few photos. There were a lot of shadows and as novice photographers, it was hard for us to really capture the moment.