Last Day In Osaka

What is the best thing to do on your last day of holiday? Shopping of course…. Hahaahah… for the past couple of days, we have been visiting places of interests and travelling to Kyoto and finally today, we will do some last-minute shopping.

We arrived at Rinku Premium Outlet after about an hour dive from our hotel. This place is huge! There are a few sections for shoppers and housed about 200 brands and eateries. We do not have the luxury to shop at our own pace as this place is too far from the city. We hurried to do some shopping at the brands we wanted and rested for a while before leaving for another location. While the kids were having their time at the playground, hubby and I tried their crepes ice-creams which was delicious! It totally reminded me of Blue Seal in Okinawa…. How I miss that…

We headed off back to the city and managed to reach the Osaka Castle before night fall. Our driver dropped us at the Osaka Park and we took a long walk through the garden and after about 20 minutes of walking, we finally arrived the Osaka Castle. This place is beautiful and had a very thick history but the weather is not really helping as it turned cold (6 degrees) in the late afternoon. We were worried for the kids as they were complaining about the cold wind and they want to go back. 

We decided to take a couple of pictures and left for our hotel. We will definitely try to explore this place again if we visit Osaka in future. It should be a nice place to walk around and checking the museum should be interesting too.

When we arrived at our hotel, our little pumpkin was so tired that she just fell flat on the floor and refused to move… hahahahahah… that’s somehow the sums up the phrase “Shop till you drop” but for little pumpkin, it will be ‘walk till you drop’….

After freshened up, we went to the restaurant just opposite the hotel as the kids did not want to go too far. We tried out the Izakaya style dinner and it was really GOOD! The food served was reasonable priced and very much tastier than the ones we have back home. The kids enjoyed the food very much and we even ordered 2 or 3 portions for some dishes. 😊 

It somehow summed up our trip to Osaka and it sure created some plenty of good memories for us to keep and now, we will be looking forward to the food in Hong Kong. Thank you Osaka and see you again in the near future!