We left our apartment in Hiroshima at 10:00 and made our way to the station, where we had breakfast in a rather nice cafe. It's a book cafe. You can have eggs on toast with coffee and then potter around and buy books.
We didn't buy books. We went for a wander in the station department store and then took our shinkansen to Shin Ōsaka. I'm not sure what everyone is doing this weekend, but the shinkansen was very crowded!
Lunch in Shin Ōsaka and then on to Ōsaka by train, and another train to the local station to where we are staying. Trying to find our house was something of a challenge. Google maps, Apple maps AND the Airbnb directions all took us to a location that clearly wasn't where our house was. I wonder if the GPS system was playing up yesterday afternoon because none of the reviews on the Airbnb site mention any difficulty in finding the place. Had we followed the host's directions, I think we would have been ok - but I couldn't access them on my phone or iPad. Anyway. We got here eventually, although we're not sure quite how we persuaded our devices to come here. We even found a rather large supermarket when we went out exploring later. But there's no nearby convenience store, which is quite unusual in Japan.
Austin, Kaori and Tatsuki arrived at around 10:30 in the evening. We had notified Austin that the directions were a bit suspect and had shared our actual location. Fortunately he and Kaori managed to get here without much trouble.
So here we are.
Ōsaka.
It's our last weekend.
And it's raining! It's the first real rain we've had since we got here. I may have to dig out my rain jacket for the day.
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