Given that this is Japan, where that could mean anything from loosening your tie to a full-scale Bacchanalian orgy, I wasn't quite sure what to expect.
What I found, however, was an astonishing, vibrant, exciting city and the very warmest of welcomes.
While the Japanese are never less than polite and helpful, Osaka folks are genuinely open, friendly and so much as they are able chatty.
Like the capital, Osaka is a huge place; the second-largest city in the country, in fact, with around nine million people in the entire prefecture.
It's divided, broadly speaking, into downtown and uptown such as Minami. The former is Osaka's central commercial and business area but Minami strictly speaking, the South is where you want to be.Here you'll find Namba, Shinsaibashi and Dotonbori and describing them as the city's premier shopping and entertainment centres doesn't even remotely begin to do them justice. For city block after city block, every main road, every side street, every alleyway is packed with bars, restaurants and nightclubs. Squeezed among them you'll find fast-food stalls, pachinko parlours, games arcades and coffee shops.You could eat out twice a day for a year and never come close to repeating yourself within a 10-minute radius of Namba Station alone.
And now, one day trip to Kyoto. And where I wore my Kimono and walk around and look like a Japanesse.
Before the story starts, let me explained about the world, the kimono is recognized as the national dress of Japan. Made from a single, long fourteen-inch-wide bolt of silk, the kimono has an over-all T-shape, with its component parts joined mostly in straight, vertical seams. In contrast to typical Western garb, the kimono is flat rather than three-dimensional, and angular, not form-fitting. It is more an expression of surface design by means of dyed or embroidered patterns than a product of tailoring and weave.
I had enjoyed my one day trip wearing kimono and enjoyed wondering around and having some great food. Whoever travel to Japan, I tell you it’s a must to visit this few places. This is what I called freedom.
