Saturday, July 4, 2009

Pre-Tanabata and Osaka's Big Scale Gundam

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Tanabata is near, even the station has the bamboo to hang your wishes.

Here is the map of where I went this weekend. Namba to Shitennouji to Tennouji. There's an event in Shitennouji today.

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Passing through Namba, a fake Inari shrine in Namba.

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Gegege Kitaro on the wall next to an eating place.

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Stairs going down 1.

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The cafe where I ate Banana Parfait Curry. Look at the manga collection! Will definitely visit here again.

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On the way to the temple. This is stairs going down part 2.

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Not sure why the birds are wandering around this shop. It looks like an old abandoned shop. Even when I got closer to them, they didn't fly away...

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Interesting architecture near temple/graveyard.

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Entrance to Shintennouji temple. Still not that many people.

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一人では生きられません。One cannot live alone.

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Place to write your wishes to hang on the bamboo.

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Warning on not to get close to birds because of the bird flu scare. Ehh...old news. Now is the new influenza scare, haha.

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Schoolgirls getting ready to enter for the event.

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I think this is supposed to be a fireman mascot.

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Osaka also has its own big Gundam model! Made of cardboards though, and is only 3m high.

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Note the small Gundam on the shoulder!
Heard a mother telling her son "Yes, we'll have to go to Tokyo to see the big one". *nods*

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200 yen to watch a movie made by students (slideshow of photos of Osaka and people's wishes voices) and a short introduction about the universe, and the Gundam, I suppose. Great! Now I know there'll be a nationwide sun eclipse on 22 July!

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By the time I got out, there are more people! But it's time for me to go home!

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On the way back, I spot a small scramble crossing road.

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