Tuesday, August 03, 2010

The Beach and a little of Dotonbori with Brian

The weekend was, as predicted by the omniscient forecasters, beautiful, hot and sunny.

Fortunately, Brian was able to take Monday off, so he had a three day weekend to spend with me at the beach in Wakayama!

He came to Osaka on Saturday morning, then we made our way together to Isonoura and Kada beaches for the weekend, staying overnight in Wakayama city. We had wanted to stay at a minshuku nearer the beach, but we weren't so lucky. However, we did get a really good deal on a very nice room at the Toyoko Inn, a good quality chain hotel that just opened a new hotel near Wakayama station!.

I didn't get many pics of the beach, but here is one, taken when we were relaxing at a little 'restaurant' before heading home.

[caption id="attachment_204" align="alignnone" width="297" caption="Post-Beached, post-showered, - resting up before heading back."][/caption]

After getting back to Osaka, we struck out for a night on the town, looking for good food and cold beer in the Dotonbori district.
[caption id="attachment_205" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Enjoying a few riverside beers at a little motsu-nabe restaurant (we didn't actually eat there though since we don't really like motsu!)"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_206" align="alignnone" width="224" caption="Dotonbori River at Night"][/caption]

1 comment:

lyn said...

Sounds like a good time.