Travel Diary #2: Central Japan Day 5 (2/2)

We've spent a few hours at Spa World and it's time to return to USJ to pick up the rest of the tour members. As we arrived at USJ, we got to visit there again while waiting for them to return to the bus.

There were less visitors in the afternoon as compared to the morning.

Opposite USJ, there's CityWalk.

A new hotel coming soon.

Roller coaster inside USJ.

Opposite USJ, there's a place called CityWalk where you can eat and shop. Although there are many delicious foods sold there such as fried chicken and MOS Burger etc, we didn't visit there due to time constraints. We visited the souvenir shop to see if there's anything to buy. I bought a special snack which comes from Kyoto. Wait! I'm in Osaka. Why did I buy snacks originated from Kyoto?!

Bought a special snack with a very nice packaging.

Inside the box, it is a triangular-shaped snack named nama yatsuhashi. It is a soft, mochi-like skin made from rice flour. There are different flavors for the skin. For the image above, the top one is cinnamon while the bottom one is matcha. There's also red bean filling inside. At first, I thought it would be nice to eat but it tasted very weird especially the cinnamon flavor. Not up to my expectation.

The remaining members visiting USJ have returned to the bus and we moved on to shopping at Shinsaibashi and Dotonbori.

That poster looked very familiar.

That crab also looked familiar as well.

Shinsaibashi

Inside Shinsaibashi, there are many shops inside such as Daimaru, Desigual and ABC Mart (selling shoes) etc. As we walked inside, we came across GU. If you've read Central Japan Day 2 where we shopped at BICQLO in Shinjuku, you know that GU is UNIQLO's sister. They sell mostly the same as compared to UNIQLO. In terms of pricing, you can see it for yourself. 799 yen can buy a shirt and 900 yen can buy 3 boxers. Affordable? When we visited GU, they were having a sale so all prices looked cheaper after discount. Furthermore, the crowd gathered there.

GU has its own department store as compared to the one in Shinjuku.

After shopping at GU, we went back to the "Running man" poster which was our meeting point. There was a small rain so we took the shelter outside H&M.

We headed to our BBQ buffet dinner at a restaurant named Amataro. It was located at a building where there's also nightclubs as well. The restaurant itself takes up one floor.

Before entering the restaurant, we have to take off your shoes and placed it in a locker.

A special locker key to put our shoes

BBQ buffet dinner which includes chicken, pork, sausages and vegetables.

After dinner, we headed to our final hotel stay at the Bellevue Garden Hotel. Unlike the previous 4 hotels which are 4-star hotels, that hotel I could say is really a 3-star hotel. Despite that, there's a supermarket located opposite the hotel. It opens daily from 9am to 10pm.

We visited the supermarket and bought some snacks and drinks. We had supper before we ended the night. After that night, it was time to leave Japan.

To be continued for the final day in Central Japan.