Osaka

On this day we left Kyoto and drove an hour away to Osaka. We parked at a children's playground so the kids could get some exercise. The day was cloudy but it did not rain and it was nice to get a break from the heat. We saw a little train going by. Actually it was a wheeled vehicle made to look and sound like a train.We ended up boarding the little train for the ride up to the largest palace in Japan. The picture here shows where we got off the train.From here we walked on a bridge over the moat to the palace. We spend the entire afternoon at the palace grounds looking around and people watching. Osaka was the location of the 1970 World Fair. We saw a huge steel time capsule from the fair on the palace grounds. Late in the afternoon we took our train back to our parking spot. Parking is difficult in this city and we ended up paying $20.00 to get out of the parking lot. We found our way to our AirBnB with little difficulty. The parking spot was so tiny we spent a lot of time getting into it. This place to stay is much nicer than our place in Kyoto. We went to the grocery store for a dinner of sushi, edamame, noodles, tofu, rice and kimchi.