Hi again from Japan! These days it’s Golden Week, which means some days off and in my case skipping some classes in between to go traveling for a few days. I chose to travel to the Kansai area, including Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto, to do some sightseeing and visit my friends from Hamburg and Japan, who are also studying there right now. So I took the train on Saturday and set for Osaka.

Still, Okayama layed on the way and as I’ve been there last year, I decided to visit Gen again (Nozomi has moved back to her hometown Shimonoseki again). I arrived there around midday and after eating lunch and buying a sleeping bag I continued to Gens place. His wife and children sadly weren’t there, but I had a nice conversation with his mother and him in the garden, while drinking some tea.  As I’ve already seen most of the sights in Okayama last year we decided to watch the local soccer team’s first home match of this season. Okayama Fagiano plays in the second japanese division and had lost their first to matches. Watching the game, I was able to imagine why. I noticed a lack of structure and shooting on the opponent’s goal only around 5 times in 45 minutes isn’t much. They were lucky, the opponent wasn’t able to capitalise on that and so the game ended with a draw – 0:0.

After that, we wen’t eating near the station, so I would be able to catch my train to Osaka. It was an izakaya and we were eating a wide variety of foods, but I haven’t made any photos that time :/ I can assure you though, that it was extremely delicious and ranging from teriyaki to some tofu. I promised him to come and visit him again later this year again. Hopefully his whole family will be there at that time

Later, I continued to Osaka without a problem and and checked into Yanniks place, where we stayed awake about until 5 a.m. before we decided it would be wise to go to sleep, considering we wanted to do sightseeing in Osaka on the next day ^^