Whirlwind In A Mama's Head

Our last destination was Osaka. We stayed for 2 nights there but on the last day we had our flight home early in the morning.  The trip to Osaka from Kobe after our steak lunch was smooth, it took merely half an hour to get there. We arrived at Osaka Station before dark and walked to our hotel. For our two night stay, I had booked New Hankyu Hotel Osaka, where the stop for the Limousine bus to the airport was. I imagined we would have had to leave very early in the morning so I wanted less hassle in getting to the bus stop. At Osaka Station View from our hotel Elevator button Evacuation chute instruction on the 9th floor One of the things I was looking forward to in Osaka was to visit Atelier nani IRO, a boutique shop for Nani IRO fabrics. They are hard to come by outside Japan so I was very excited. It was only about 2 km away from our hotel so we decided to walk there. On the way, we found a tree that looked like a Canadian Maple tree but we weren't su...

The end of our trip was approaching... We continued our journey to Kobe city, of course mainly to have Kobe Beef . We arrived at Kobe's Sannomiya Station at around dinner time, and we headed to our dinner place right away. It was a good thing I've already decided where we were going to eat in advance. Our dinner of choice was beef steak and beef roast bowl at Red Rock that was a short walking distance from the station. There was a short lineup when we arrived but the line moved very quickly. The did not have a lot of things on their menu, and you simply order through a vending machine. We had opted for a small roast beef bowl and a small steak bowl at 800 yen each. Our food arrived within 2 minutes time and they were both delicious. I personally would like it to be more salty but that was just my preference. Steak rice bowl Roast beef bowl After dinner, we walked to our hotel. Or so we thought! I had booked Kobe Motomachi Tokyu REI hotel but we had gone to Ko...