Tuesday, January 24, 2024

• Morning coffee, then back to the hotel to pack up all our luggage – on the road again tomorrow!

• More general explore around Dotonbori – we love this area, there’s always so much to see and explore.

• Stopped back at an okonomiyaki place near our hotel for lunch – a chef came and prepared our orders at our table for us, and they were perfection. Wonderful drinks selection, too!

• Headed to Umida for the afternoon, I spent some time exploring Yodabashi (and picking up a fisheye bodycap lens, which is bad for image quality but excellent for fun), while MBW checked out an enormous craft supply store. Everyone happy.
• Unfortunately, sometime during this afternoon, I think the flu started taking hold of me, to the point that by the time we were ready for dinner, I was feeling extremely average and had lost my appetite. We stopped for a quick meal (I think I only had an orange juice and a vitamin C “medical drink” thing).

• After that, I was running out of energy fast. We decided to get a taxi back to the hotel rather than use the trains, which meant I got some fisheye shots from a moving taxi, resulting in some images I really like (and a lot more I’m pretty indifferent to).

• A quick walk back from the edge of the mall to the hotel, and immediately to bed. Hopefully a good night’s sleep will start the healing process.