5D4N Osaka 2015

Osaka 2015

5D4N Osaka 11 June to 15 June

Namho travel (airtickets and hotel) $3245

Flight : JAL

Old plane ,not as uncomfortable as ANA. Meals not fantastic.

Sheraton mikayo hotel: Look luxurious outside, inside old facilities .Average

bedding and toliet facilities.Very

convenient , shopping centre next door . Food accessible. Train station just below the hotel .

Train ride free for kids under 6 yrs old Chartered shuttle from Itami airport to hotel (30mins ride) abt $60 Ask for 2 single bedded Gym not freeWifi in hotel . Quite fast

11 June thu

Flight at night

Reach osaka 12.35pm

Check in at 130pm

Walk around to hotel

12 June fri

Universal city station :Universal studio/hard rock osaka 30 mins ride from hotel train station 350 yen to nishikujo station , change train to universal studio station 160 yen

13 June sat

Osaka station :Osaka aquarium kaiyukan /Ferris wheel /Tempozan Harbor Village :Lego discovery centre/ small interactive indoor animal farm Shinsaibashi (a lot of shopping :uniqlo/ diaso)/Dontonbori (did not go)

14 June sun

Kintetsu Nara station :Nara park
Ikeda station : ramen museum
Umeda station : shopping
Tenma station : Kids plaza osaka Meet jialing and family for dinner

15 June mon

Check out 11am

Chartered shuttle

Flight back Singapore at 2.35pm

16 June tue Reach Singapore 12.35am

1)    Universal studio

http://www.usj.co.jp/e/mapcourse/course.html

Tickets: 7200 yen/4980 yen

2)     Kids plaza Osaka (Tenma station )
http://www.kidsplaza.or.jp/en/whats/No cafe inside. Can buy your own food and bring it in. Food options available near the

JR-Tenma station. Direction: 2 ways to get there. Either by subway sakaisuji line to ogimachi station or by Tenma station on JR loop line. Board at platform 2, 1 stop to Tenma station. Take to the left of the information centre. Walk straight. Cross the road with traffic light . The building you are at now, houses the kids plaza.Like science centre and kidsstop1800 yen/ 600 yen

3)     Osaka castle (Osakajo Koen station)9-4.30pmMuseum (600yen/free)

4) Osaka aquarium kaiyukan (osaka station )9.30-8pm

http://www.kaiyukan.com/language/eng/info/index.htm2300yen/600yenTempoza
Harbor Village is located about 30 minutes from JR Osaka station by public transportation, about five minutes from the nearest subway station on foot, about five minutes from the nearest freeway ramp by car

5) instant ramen museum (Ikeda station )At umeda station take train from track 4. Alight at ikeda station go towards the direction of ikeda kids world. Turn right at the bottom of the escalator when at the exit. U will be looking at a fork road. Either way will lead to the museum.You get to decorate a cup of instant noddles and get a souvenir back. 300yen for a cup

 6) Shinsaibashi/Dontonbori (shopping)Shinsaibashi station

7) osaka museum of housing and living ( Tenma station )JR Tenma station on the loop line. At the foot of the escalator, you can choose to turn either ways. go in the direction parallel to the escalator that you came down from, that is, road just next to the station. You will reach the tenjinbashi shopping street in 10 seconds. From there turn right and walk all the way to the end. When u are nearing the building, there will be signs hanging from the ceiling but it's in mix of Chinese and japenese characters. If you do not know how to read, it's the building on your right with glass doors. It's a rather unassuming and old looking office building. Take escalator to 8th floor. The kimono is on the 9th. You have to go up escalator and come down again after the entrance

8) Hard Rock Cafe osaka Outside universal studio

9) Nara park - see deers in nature and see Nara town Very wild deer . beware.