Osaka was my favorite, I don’t know if it is because I planned a more relaxed trip or if I was happy to finally sleep, or if it was because the people were even nicer than they were in Kyoto and had better English then they did in Tokyo.
Friday, our first full day in Osaka was spent in the bay area, we went to an aquarium and took a ride on what was advertized as the biggest giant wheel in the world (after a Google search Adam found it to be false). We got some amazing views of Osaka from the slowest Ferris wheel I had ever been in. We had dinner at a Mexican restaurant in the downtown area (Adam had enough Japanese food, and considering Japanese food in America and in Huizhou for that matter is pretty true to Japanese food in Japan, he wanted to try something that we don’t get very often. 
Saturday we went to the local imperial palace and took a tour through the museum. It was a beautiful park area (complete with a place to get snow cones). There were jugglers doing tricks and souvenir shops. Then we went to the floating garden observatory. The book described it by saying something like: if the fear of heights doesn’t get you the fear of riding on an escalator with only glass to protect you, in a nation plagued with earthquakes will. We got a great view of the city (again). For dinner we planned to eat at an Indian restaurant but it was closed so after walking around a bit we saw an Outback steakhouse. All I wanted was a tossed salad and some bloomin’ onion. The hour and a half wait was totally worth it!
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