東京と大阪 ♡ city view

As one of the last posts about my trip to Japan, I tried to gather all the photos that were still missing to grand them another post, that will be filled with impressions I collected when I roamed the cities of Osaka and Tokyo.

四天王寺 ♡ my view on Japanese religion

This is long overdue, but since I miss Japan so damn much right now, 

I try to keep this series from ending as long as humanly possible...

On our last day in Osaka, we visited the Buddhist temple Shitennō-Ji - 四天王寺,
that is located in the Tennōji area - 天王寺区.

通天閣 ♡ in midair

After our stroll through Osaka Castle and some other, minor discoveries our first day ended with a tour to the Tsūtenkaku {通天閣} tower in the Shinsekai {新世界} - which means "new world" - district of Osaka.
The tower is rather small with 103 meters, the main observation deck at a height of 91m.
We still decided to do it and got up there.
It was evening already when we arrived so the chances were quite high, we would be able to take some photos and see the tower enlighted.
Depending on the season the construction of the tower - that was originally based on Paris' Eiffel Tower - shines in different colors once night has fallen.

大阪城 ♡ on a visit to Hideyoshi & Tokugawa

Though we would have been able to spend all our time solely discovering Tokyo, we seized the chance to take a trip to Osaka from March 13 till 17.
We took an overnight bus and arrived in the early morning. Seeing that we were rather tired and took our time to arrive completely our trip to some of Osaka's sights had to wait till the next day.
Osaka Castle - Ōsaka-jō {大阪城} in Japanese - was of course one of them and our first stop.