We successfully reached our hostel, Hotel Toyoh, with the help of a really kind old lady!
Our first encounter with the Osaka people was so good that I was convinced I am going to have a really great trip in Japan.
The old lady was so helpful, she saw us holding up a map looking lost and she approached us to help even b4 we asked! Plus we totally couldn’t make out what she was saying but she still continued to guide us and helped direct us to our hotel.
Great people make a great day!
Our subsequent days in Osaka went smoothly with the help of all the friendly and nice Osaka people.

We arrived in Osaka late afternoon.
So by the time we settled down, there wasn’t much time left for us to head for the city area. Moreover, we need to get our transport card that was really important as it allows us many many free admissions to the Osaka tourist spots! Luckily there’s a tourist centre near our hotel where we can get the card, so khai and I quickly set off and WALK to the place.
For all my dear readers’ information, china has been good training for khai and shui in walking long distances without much complains! Haha..no distance is far for us anymore. Fits perfectly well in our budget japan trip.

Anyway, after getting our card, we explored the area which happened to have some shopping malls and settled our meal there.
First meal in Japan. Ironically, its not a jap meal, its western crepe! haha..but with jap innovation. I just love how the Japs are able to popularise and innovate on things that were not originally theirs. On our subsequent days in Japan, we saw tons of crepe stalls everywhere, with all sorts of different kinds of saliva savouring crepes. There's even cheesecake in their crepes!

Quickly made our way back to the hotel after that as we have to make it in time for our baths! Our hotel allocated different bathing times for different genders. Just before you wonder why this is so, its because our hotel bath is PUBLIC BATH!!!!
I’ve never had public baths before and it was really weird.
At first I thought it would be okay, so I went down with khai to the shower room, but in the end I escaped back to the room even before bathing…hahaha…
But yes I did bath that night ok. I just went down at a later time to bath when there’s nobody around!

Us in our bath robes.