Today we ventured out on foot. We headed south to the Nishinari Post Office. This was where we were supposed to pick up our baseball tickets. We have two seats to a game in Osaka and two seats to a game in Tokyo. Buying any tickets in Japan is tricky as the translations are often sketchy and so the instructions are hard to follow. Leslie found a Baseball concierge online that takes care of the purchasing and the delivery of the tickets. Sold! We walked to the post office taking a different route than we had before. Of course there were flowers everywhere and quintessential Japanese items to see along the way. We wanted to buy a new type of Gin but the two liquor stores that we passed were merely vending machines on the street, whahhh? We picked up the tickets, stopped off at a coffee shop for some tea, hit the market and headed home.
Sumo wrestlers get hurt so use their images on Kinesiology tape
This goes way beyond a few flowers, this is an entire vegetable garden
A tiny gold bell on this cat
The only climbing wall we have seen so far
Is the chef a clown, are they clowning around inside? So many questions...
The cars all seem a bit truncated
A fine three species flower bed
Packed tight with blooms
On a tree
The postal clerk needed a passport
Just like that we have the tickets
Take me out to the ballgame...
Cause it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ball game
We passed what I assume is a bowling ally
A delicate lavender colored bloom
More ornamental cabbages
We were surprised to see an orange tree or maybe it is a yuzu tree
These fruits were tiny
Amongst the modern buildings was this old style one. These shutters were very thick
All aspects of the building seemed very old
The manhole covers are now in full color
A specialty store with seaweeds and mushrooms
These must be some fine mushrooms
What kind of hat is on this cat?
This is a real transformation the before and after shots defy belief
The hat I almost owned
More superb street ironwork
Convex and concave roof sections
Another small temple on the walk
Me-Ow
Stopped into the coffee shop
Mad coffee scientists
Carbon filtered coffee
The coffee smelled delightful
A bit of cake?
A macha iced drink
With a scoop of vanilla ice cream
Another painted manhole cover
Baby blue eyes
The trees are pruned in the cloud pruning manner
Back to the lavender colored flowers
Inspecting our tickets
Go Osaka Buffaloes !
