Bright lights and man-hunting deer in Osaka, Japan
Dōtonbori, Osaka You are a traveller. You are waiting for your companions to figure out the rail system at Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan. You decide not to help them. It's too much fun to watch them struggle. The curly haired one is searching one of three train maps she has acquired while the bearded one is staring slack-jawed at the array of Japanese machines, signs and lights around you. Dōtonbori , Osaka Eventually the pair of them figure it out. You head to your hostel in the Higashishinsaibashi district in Osaka. You spend the rest of the evening wandering around the streets of Dōtonbori, an old district teeming with street food vendors running alongside a canal. The streetlights, neon signs and billboards glitter off the canal, turning the city lights upside down in liquid motion. Dōtonbori canal Occasionally you look at some of the food vendors in a vain attempt to find a vegetarian meal for your two companions. There are a lot of c...