Nagoya
25/03/05 07:14 in: Japan
Really cold but sunny and we were up early to battle through the Osaka rush hour to get the bullet train to Nagoya. An hour later at Nagoya we got the local train for 50 minutes to the end of the line and finally the local tube thing to the Expo site. It was incredibly cold and very windy so probably only 1 or 2 degrees. The Expo site is huge and would take days to explore fully.
We visited some of the pavillions - India, Mexico, central America - and had some chicken and chips to warm up but everywhere in the open air was just too cold to wait in line for. The queue to see the woolly mammoth was 2 hours long at 4pm but we did see some small robots. We decided to call it a day and headed back to Osaka by various trains and went to find food near to Namba. Three helpings of okinomayaki washed down with cold beer did the trick and we also went for a walk around Dotombori again to watch the young and trendy people go past.
We visited some of the pavillions - India, Mexico, central America - and had some chicken and chips to warm up but everywhere in the open air was just too cold to wait in line for. The queue to see the woolly mammoth was 2 hours long at 4pm but we did see some small robots. We decided to call it a day and headed back to Osaka by various trains and went to find food near to Namba. Three helpings of okinomayaki washed down with cold beer did the trick and we also went for a walk around Dotombori again to watch the young and trendy people go past.