It is now March and I'm very excited to tell you about my first day checking out the plum blossoms.
Here was my regard this day, these gorgeous and amazingly beautiful plum blossoms all around the Park sparked my life. There were hundreds of trees with different tones of red, pink, white, and fucia. The second photo was taken from the top of the park, so it was very interesting and they smelled so delicious!!!
It was sunny and very warm. People were taking many photos, eating, having pick nick under the trees and enjoying the season. Many people come to check out the Osaka Castle, and other just come to enjoy the blossoms. There were many people walking their dogs, which are usually really well dressed up.
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This is how may day started and what happened On Sunday March 4th.
I got up at 5:00 am because I couldn't sleep well. Of course how could I close my eyes if the night before I drank 3 cups of strong coffee with my upstairs neighbors from Egypt, Germany, and Sweeden. We studied until midnight approximately but when I went to bed couldn't catch one dream.
So on Sunday I had some breakfast, and asked my roomates how to get Osaka JO Koen (Osaka Park), then I got ready and at about 9:00am I grabbed my camera took off by myself to see the beautiful plum blossoms. I had to first catch a bus to Hirakata City, it only takes about 1o minutes and costs 220 yens ($2.20), then I went to the Train Station. See here in Japana there are many different train lines and train stations, as well as subways or (Metro in Spanish) -so when you travel you have to know which one you are taking depending of the city you are visiting and depending on the speed you want to go. Usually the faster you go the more expensive the train ticket fair. So I went in the Keihan Line and purchased a "Kipu" (ticket) for
320 yens ($3.20) From Hirakatashi to Kyobashi. The "shi" at the end of the Names stands for City. Once I got to Kyobashi I had to change train line and go up the stair and cross the busy train stations to transfer to a JR line Station. JR is Japan Rail, there I was looking at the fare prices in front of the ticket machine, and some japanese men approached me and looked at me really weird, certainly his body language told me what he was looking for. Here in Japan, we have been told that many older man, and executive looking ones, are hanging around the train stations to solicit "...." you may imagine, what I am talking about, and usually they are after foreigners, so it was good I was aware of that otherwise, I may have thought he just wanted to talk or ask questions. The way I approached this situation was by giving him a very serious look. He looked nervous and left but 3 minutes later he came back again, and again I gave him the dirties look so he would leave me alone, so he left and never saw him around anymore. I was a little nervous in the beggining but then I got my ticket and jumped into the JR from Kyobashi to Tenoji Station (Osaka Jo Koen), just one stop from that station and arrived to the beautiful Osaka Park.
