Osaka Station
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 1 Nov 2017 23:57
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Osaka
Station
  Osaka Station entrance, so
lovely at night.
  I
loved the building next door.
   Osaka Station 1874, 1901 and today.
We have come to expect huge walkways,
shops and restaurants so Osaka
Station needed to come up with something different, the statistics are pretty
impressive - Osaka Station and Umeda Station, effectively
part of the same complex, together constitute the busiest station in Western
Japan, serving 2,343,727 passengers daily in 2005, and the fourth-busiest
railway station in the world.
  The first impressive thing we saw was
the enormous frieze over the door, which includes
kangaroos......
 We both love escalators.
  We head
to the top floor looking up at the
ceiling.
 Christmas
lights in a huge curtain.
  The floor display.
  I sometimes wonder just how many pictures I’ve taken of
Bear. The curtain lights
soften and
darken....
  We stood and watched how neatly everyone queues. A train comes in, no rush, people wait
until folks get off and on they go maintaining their
lines.
 A train
leaves and just a few who missed it or the new queue to
see.
 We walk back to our platform and like
the easy to find to and
from.
 Easy to find our
station and the direction of travel.
 Our chap
arrives after a few minutes.
  We decide to eat at our digs, a Chinese, we are the only
customers – always a worry.
 The starter was
prettily presented, the rest of the meal was a multiple choice as the two
waitresses spoke not a shade of English.
 One item may
have indeed been very tasty.......
 ...but neither of us ordered the Bum Wraps..........
ALL IN ALL LOVED THE ESCALATORS AND THE PARTY FEEL THRONGS OF PEOPLE WHO ALL SEEMED TO KNOW WHERE THEY WERE GOING |