Osakit to me

Today was our first day off from traveling and time for a well deserved rest. We're living in Osaka, Japan and it has been one of our greatest Japanese cultural experiences thus far. We are staying in a capsule hotel which is like living in a pod. We each have our own shelf space with it's own mini TV on the ceiling, covers and not much else. The door at the end of the capsules is a curtain. It's unbelievable what a 'foreign' experience it is living in a tube.

We got our first glimpse at a Japanese bathhouse today...and plenty more looks from naked Japanese businessmen. After a nice sauna...the process takes us to a large hot tub for a soak, then all around the sides of the room are stools, with showerheads above to scrub up, rinse down and back to the tub for a final soak. Quite an interesting adventure.

Aside from the skitsofrenic-seizure machines they call Pachinko here...it has been a wonderful town. Tomorrow it's off to Hiroshima to learn a little history surrounding one of the only two cities to be inundated with the awesome power of an atomic bomb.