Osaka Castle
It has been 10 years since I was in Osaka.
We couldn’t check in til 4pm. So we left our stuff at Shin Osaka station and decided to get take the JR Tokaido Sanyo Line as it is a direct train to Osaka Station.
Once we got to Osaka Station, we had to look at the map on which train would bring us to Osaka Castle. We jumped on the Tanimachi subway line and that took us to the Tanimachiyonchome Station. Osaka Castle was a block away.
I remember coming up to the corner of the Osaka Museum of History. We walked to the corner of the Park and the over view of the Moat was gorgeous!
-osaka castle moat video
I accidentally merged pictures from a different folder with my Osaka Castle pictures, so many are gone (I’m an idiot!!! smh). I do have video though!
After getting some food from the mini Food trucks there, I went to go to the bathroom. The bathroom that was outside the entrance to the Castle itself was squatter style.
There was a short line to buy tickets and go in. The ticket itself was 600 Yen.
We slowly got inside (yes it was that busy) and went to the top. Great views of Osaka from a 360 perspective. As you make your way down, each floor had some history. Two of the floors had some historic relics from the days of the samurai and so they asked people not to video or take pictures. There was some very cool paintings of the battles!
