a picture of sibling love! this is the castle in osaka which was rebuilt and houses a museum about the histopry of the castle and the area and samurai. here we tasted the local delicacy of battered octopus balls, was v. amusing to see zella heave! the grounds were very nice in an otherwise boring city, the birmingham of japan (sizewise anyway) and this concludes japan, now in hot and sweaty bangkok and will update the journal asap.