Public Holiday Monday

Monday was a 'national' (public) holiday - respect for the aged day. Sam cooked some scrambled eggs and bacon, which we had with some toast. The toast didn't really go as it was a bit sweet. Definitely missing having some good breakfast in Sydney.

We headed out to Shinnagata to see the 'life size' 18m tall Tetsujin-28 monument. It was built as a symbol of recovery from the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995. It is very cool! There were some street lamps with Tetsujin heads on them too. We walked over to see some giant shoes outside shoe plaza. They weren't as big as I was expecting (I was expecting to see some shoes about the size of Tetsujin.. hehe..)

Must-do Tetsujin photo pose

Tetsujin lamp posts

Random bunny road barriers

Showing the way to shoe plaza

The big red shoes

We popped back on the subway to go see the giant buddha. Saw this awesome looking place covered in vines on the way. The buddha wasn't very interesting I must say and found it kind of scary.

Awesome house

Giant buddha with his creepy eyes

Stopped at a Family Mart (convenience store) to get something to keep us going in the heat. Walked out with a pair of Crunkys (the name always makes me smile =P). It's ice cream with a chocolate and biscuit outside. Nowhere near as a good as a Gaytime or Maxibon. We got coffee ice cream ones. The coffee flavour was a bit strong for me but Sam liked it.

  Coffee ice cream Crunky.

Next we went to Harborland. Headed over to Mosaic Plaza where they have some cool shops! We saw two ladies dressed up in Halloween gear. One was singing whilst playing the accordion and the other would walk like.. a doll? The singing lady was funny as she would occasionally sing 'take a picture' when she saw people with cameras.. =P We grabbed some Korean lunch and started heading home as I wasn't feeling very good. =( Would like to go back at night time to see some of the night lights and explore the area a bit more.

Popped by the Motomachi Daimaru on the way home to pick up some num nums. Sam got a pistachio cake and I got some caramel one. Sam's one was a pistachio mousse, some cherry inside on a almond-meringue base. Mine was a caramel mousse with cream on a sour cherry cake base. It needed some kind of crunch like some peanut brittle or praline to make it even better.