Osaka part 4

So I managed to get kicked out of Spa World today. Can't take me anywhere.

Spa World is a HUGE resort that is famous for it's many osen (hot springs). Their hot springs are fashioned after different parts of the world. One Bali room, a Korean room, Persian room, Japanese, and a Dr. Spa. Unfortunately, in Japan if you have a tattoo you are prohibited from entering any sort of public bathhouse/hot spring. Despite knowing this me and Yukie decided we were going to be sneaky and just not tell them that I have tattoos and use towels to cover up while we're in the water. Well, it was a good plan until we read that you weren't allowed to bring the towels into the water. So, hoping that no one would notice my giant tats on my side and shoulder we risked entry. We made it through 30 minutes until they came and said we had to leave. I bet some old grandma rated me out. The good thing is that we had made it through almost all of the hot springs and even did the mud bath and salt  ex-foliate-tor thing. I argued with them to let us stay, saying things like "But they're not bad images!", and "i'm not a bad person!!", but they were more stubborn than I was (that's new) and eventually said that they would give us our money back if we left that instant. We obliged and they gave us our 1,000 yen (about 10 dollars) back, and we left fairly satisfied ( I mean we got to go into all the hot springs for free even though it was only for 30 minutes). Missed out on the massage though, but oh well. I'll save that for Thailand and Vietnam XD

We took the train into the main part of Osaka from there and decided to go watch Norwegian Wood (a movie based off a book by Haruki Murakami who in turn based it off the Beatles song, hence the title). Now, I'm a fan of Haruki Murakami. I've read one of his books (not Norwegian Wood) and have heard good things about Norwegian Wood so I was excited to see it.

Worse. Movie. Ever.

Okay, maybe not ever but it was definitely the worse movie I've seen this year. The best part was when they rolled the credits because they played the Beatles song. I mean, I don't like love stories in general and that's what this was but since it's Murakami the story doesn't follow your typical "boy meets girl" sort of thing. Which is fine. I was expecting that. But it was so slow and the ending was pointless. The story didn't go anywhere. I don't know what the book is like but people are telling me that they really f*cked up the movie so maybe I'll brave the book one of these days.

After that traumatizing experience we met Yukie's boyfriend and we went and had some amazing Okonomiyaki (sorta like a Japanese pancake/pizza thing. It's delicious, trust me). The shop we went to has been on TV a couple times and I guess tomorrow some famous whatever is going there to make an episode of something or other. Then headed home, stopped at Tsutaya (kinda like a Blockbuster) and rented Bio-hazard 1 to make up for the crappy other movie. I fell asleep pretty fast but I could tell that it was better than Norwegian Wood.

Tomorrow i'm departing from Osaka and heading towards Kyoto! Dn't know what i'm going to do while i'm there but it should be fun!

Stay tuned!
Jamie