Ari & Nici in Japan: Osaka - Umeda: Pokémon Center & Sky Building

Hey guys (^.^)v

Welcome back to a new blog post about Osaka !

This time I want to show you what we did in Umeda.
We planed to visit Osaka's Pokémon Center and the Sky Building ♥

At first, it was quite difficult to find it because we got off at a really big train station.
But after walking around the whole building, we managed to find the department store
where the Pokémon Center was located ^.^
Already at the entrance we were greeted by Pokémon x3

The Pokémon Center is located at the 13th floor, so we took the elevator.
The Center itself doesn't really have a door. When you step out of the elevator,
you are already standing inside the store.
As I said before our trip was a little bit poorly planned because we were in Japan
during school holidays.. Please, never go into Pokémon Center during holidays!
It was so crowded T.T That's also why I couldn't take many photos.. just two x'D

so many plushes *o*

 But I bought a lot x3 I will show it to you in a seperate shopping haul post.

After Pokémon Center, we went to the basement of the department store and 
bought some food in a bakery. We sat down outside of the building  and relaxed a bit.

this is the building we wanted to visit later ^.^

a model of the area

my shopping goods x3

We were really fascinated by these steps x3

 

sorry for my giant dark circles q.q

When it got darker, we went over to the Sky Building.
It is really high when you are standing in front of it.
Of course, we had to take some photos from here, too:

Nici taking a photo

Nici taking a photo of me taking a photo..

If you want to go up there, you first have to take an elevator
to the like 50ths floor and the last five floors are to be overcome by escalators.
It is really high and I'm a bit afraid of heights but the elevator was so fast o.o
And you had a really good view from the escalators since they go up
between the two towers of the building. If you take a look at the third photo above,
you can see these two pipes going from one side of the building to the other
in a v-shape. That are the escalators. 
So since they are outside of the building, you have a good view over a huge part of Osaka!

At the top of the building is a lounge were you can buy drinks and some snacks.
I chose ice cream and Nici had some cocktail like drink.
So we waited for it getting dark to take really amazing photos ♥

still with Pokémon Center shopping bag x3

 When it finally was really dark, get went outside.
On top of the building there is a circular walk 
from where you can see every part of Osaka *-*

The view was so so beautiful ♥ I miss it so much these days T_T
But the coolest thing definetely was the black lights over our heads
and the floor sparkled with colourful spots that glow in black light *-*

some of my bracelets were also glowing ^-^

Nicis shirt was glowing in the lack light x3

Unfortunately the photos of us is blurry q.q
 

Everything glows *-* even my hair xD
 

Looking down between the two towers of the building.
The pipes you can see are the escalators to the top floor.
And on the very bottom: Osaka's other buildings x3
 

I love this pic so much *-*

With beautiful Osaka at night in the background ♥
 

Lots of Japanese people with lots of white glowing shirts xD
 

a sparkly little star ♥

After spending some hours enjoying this amazing view,
we had to say good bye to Osaka Sky Building q.q
Maybe, we can see each other once again ♥
 

This really was one of the most impressive places we visited during our journey.
It is an amazing feeling you have while looking over the whole town.
It even felt kind of unreal to be this far away from home, in another country,
with another language and see this beautiful view *-*

If you are in Japan, please go there (or on top of some other high
building in the night) and enjoy the view and just being in Japan !

That's it for today.
My next post will be about Kyoto I think.
So stay tuned and see you next time (^-^)v

Ari & Nici in Japan: Mt. Fuji 富士山

Hey guys (^.^)v

Since last year was our first stay in Japan, 

we absolutely wanted to visit its national symbol: Mount Fuji.
We again took the train to a small town located near the foot of the mountain.
Many climbers and wanderers start their tour there and since the route
was included in our Kansai Railway Pass, it was quite cheap for us ^.^

I have no idea where exatly we went off.. but we also had to change trains

 We arrived quite late since the ride took long but we still had some time until
the bus arrived with which we wanted to 'climb' onto the mountain.
So we spent some time at the station and they literally sold everything
you might need when you climb up. They even had single sold rolls of
toilet paper wrapped in sheets with handdrawn paintings of the mountain..
However, after some time of waiting and buying for provisions, our bus finally arrived.

When we bought the bus tickets, we even got a small lucky charm
to protect the wanderers ^.^
But we didn't choose a good day to visit Mount Fuji..
It was totally cloudy that day. Usually you can see the mountain
from the town we started our bus tour but on this day: no chance!
So unfortunately, we did not even had a bad view on the landscape
but literally no view at all..

While the bus was air conditioned and the air temperature in the town we started
the ride in was like 30°C, we were really shocked by how low the temperature
on Fuji was..

12°C O.O

It was so so cold Q_Q
But still we took some pictures and enjoyed our time.

We went with Jessica that day (on the left).
She is from Germany, too and coincidentally stayed at the same
hostfamily in Osaka as we did x'D
On the mountain we even met another girl from Germany
who asked us to take a photo of her.

the mountain top, without snow in the summer

We also went to the souvenir shop up there ^.^
They sell really cute and unique souvenirs, even some stuff you can only
get there and not in the shops at the train station near the foot of the mountain.
Since it was so cold, we drank some green tea in the cafeteria.
After we had revovered a bit, we went outside again to take some more memory photos:

selfie with fujisan xD

so windy o.o

We did not have that much time to explore Fuji as it tooks us several hours 
to go there and we had to take the last bus downwards before it got dark
(I think it was around 6 pm but I'm not sure anymore...)

this picture obviously remebered it for me: it was around 6 pm x3

a huge painting on a wall in the train station

 We got back to Osaka quite late and were really hungry,

so we decided to eat at a nearby familiy restaurant

that was opened until late after midnight xD

 I had fries and pancakes with chocolate ice cream *-*

Anyway, it was really great to visit Mount Fuji and see one of

 Japan's national symbols with your own eyes ^.^

Thank you for reading and see you again next time ♥